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...companionship it brings. A birder can travel a thousand miles into the wilds of another state and find instant rapport with local birding fanatics, who are busy collecting new species, along with mosquito bites and ticks. "Camaraderie is what birding is all about," says Benton Basham, a Chattanooga, Tenn., anesthetist...
Author Lifton, who you say thinks someone stole President Kennedy's body and created the bullet hole in the back of his neck [Jan. 19], is apparently unaware that the anesthetist, Dr. Marion Jenkins, at Parkland Hospital in Dallas had found the bullet hole in the back of John F. Kennedy's neck and could see the corresponding exit wound on the front of his throat...
Opponents of the bordellos point out that, for all their do-gooding, they did not pay Deadwood's 1% sales tax. Thomas Blair, an anesthetist who helped form a committee to support the anti-whorehouse drive, quotes reports that some of the houses made at least $5,000 a week. Their winked-at illegality was an affront to law-abiding citizens, he says, adding: "I'm not going to legislate my morality on someone else, but I don't want anyone legislating their immorality...
...working conditions are not nurses' only concern. They want professional advancement. Nursing has long had such specialists as the nurse-midwife and the nurse-anesthetist who assisted at surgery. But since the 1970s, the trend toward specialization has accelerated. Many more nurses are devoting themselves exclusively to coronary care, renal dialysis, burns, neonatal care, cancer, psychiatry, pediatrics, respiratory disease and geriatrics. Called nurse practitioners, they number about 15,000. Some work closely with doctors in special units of hospitals or in offices. Others, particularly in rural areas, where physicians are scarce, practice virtually on their own: for example, Eleanora...
Similarly, Joan Didion's prose is as insidiously effective as the painless touch of the anesthetist's needle she herself describes. Her sentences, pared down bone clean, are chilling in their authority. She tells her story so quickly, so mercilessly, there is simply no disputing what she finds. Her prose almost seems a function of the desert of which she writes-every superfluous gesture, as if in deference to the overwhelming heat, the sun and shifting sands, eliminated. And although the novel's action takes place in L. A., and a good deal of the rest in Vegas, there...