Word: asking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...does a chest X ray look when a breast implant leaks? (Trick question: it looks the same.) Which episode of ER fits the patient in 7206? The dazed residents protest that they have no time for television. "You've got to watch ER," Ohman lectures. "Patients come in and ask you about...
...decide whether to have her breasts removed, or to pursue various other pre-emptive treatments. But that is just the beginning. Once a patient knows about her genetic predisposition to cancer, she must decide whether or not she is going to lie on the myriad forms and applications that ask her to divulge such conditions: life- and medical-insurance policies, job applications...
...physician in an HMO. All five doctors share a PCP number and take responsibility for 10 patients each week. "When I went to medical school, I don't recall learning anything about managed care," says Shah. "But working here has helped me to think about prevention more. Now I ask my patients about health-maintenance things like diet, nutrition and exercise...
...will resume the throne after successful medical treatment. The crown prince is weary of the inevitable comparisons with his charismatic older brother. He acknowledges that he is not as smooth and radiant as Hussein but, he wonders, why should he be? "What are we?" Hassan was recently overheard to ask: "A family of clones...
...opera singer. Tenors are uncommonly stupid; divas, when they are not scarfing down pasta, are outrageously unreliable. The imperious troublemaker Kathleen Battle, feeling chilly in a limo in Los Angeles, is said to have telephoned her manager in New York City and ordered him to call her driver to ask him to turn down the air conditioning. A nervous Deborah Voigt, waiting backstage for her entrance, absentmindedly ate a prop chicken. Opera buffs will munch happily too on these nuggets...