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...Yelton suggests, "We might decide to keep the glaucoma clinic but drop the cataract clinic. We would just have to tell the cataract patient, 'I'm sorry. We can't see you.' " In offering reduced services, Grady doctors say, some patients with an easily remedied ailment may not get help until their conditions become far more serious-and also more expensive to treat...
...president's first day in office, Benjamin Shen, acting provost, resigned, in a move that stunned the University. Citing a recent recurrence of a back ailment, Shen said he took on the position to help the University out of its temporary problems, but does not want to be considered for the permanent position of provost...
...workers, Flores began his football career as a schoolboy quarterback in Sanger, Calif. At the College of the Pacific, he broke most of Eddie LeBaron's passing records, but was overlooked in the N.F.L. draft. He went to the Canadian Football League, but was dropped after a shoulder ailment recurred. Flores drifted to the Raiders, where he was starting quarterback for two seasons before contracting tuberculosis. He returned to play for eight more years with a couple of N.F.L. teams, then joined the Raiders' coaching staff...
...ailment, also known as von Recklinghausen's disease, usually begins in childhood and can cause skin polyps, or growths, multiple brain tumors and in some cases, mental retardation...
Aquino came to the United States last summer when Marcos, citing his opponent's heart ailment, released him from prison. He had been jailed shortly after Marcos cancelled the 1973 presidential elections, in which Aquino was favored to upset the Marcos regime