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P: The California Academy of General Practice performed a drastic operation on itself: it dropped 125 members (out of 1,775) because they had failed to take 150 hours of formal training every three years to keep up with modern medicine.

P: For the patient whose heart stops beating in the middle of an operation, Harvard's Dr. Paul M. Zoll has developed a simple emergency treatment. Two hypodermic needles are jabbed into the flesh, one on each side of the body, and an alternating current passing through them serves as a pacemaker for the heart beat.

P: Staff members of the University of Illinois must have nothing more to do with the mysterious horse-serum drug Krebiozen (TIME, April 9, 1951), ruled President George D. Stoddard, because "the Krebiozen affair has been damaging to our scientific reputation." Staffer chiefly affected: Vice President Andrew Ivy, who insisted on giving the secret cancer serum a full trial.

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