Word: clinically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Today, however, Huggins' drill is silent. He closed his clinic in September to devote his energy to writing another book, he says. But there may have been other, more pressing reasons. Three weeks ago, a civil jury found Huggins and an associate liable in a negligence suit brought by a woman who came in to have her fillings removed and ended up having five teeth extracted. Another lawsuit alleges that the Huggins Center hastened the death of an elderly couple; the wife stopped going to her oncologist for cancer treatments after going to the center. At a hearing that began...
...kind of bad star trip tabloid journalism has made all too familiar to modern audiences. The trouble for him is that the founding of the Betty Ford Clinic is over a century in the future. The trouble for us is that The Plainsman, in which Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur played these figures in accordance with the conventions of their time--as protagonists in something pretty close to a screwball comedy--is 60 years in the past. In other words Wild Bill was born too soon for professional help, and we, it seems, were born too late for the more...
...branch of Cambridge Hospital will soon set up a clinic within the center, Ash adds...
...slip, your arms waving like windmills, and something in your lower back twists loose, and you never attend the opera again. You spend the rest of your life in search of pain relief and wind up in India, penniless, lying on a mat at the Rama Lama Back Clinic, as the Master's disciple places the sacred banana on your back--ice can do this to a person, make you much older very suddenly...
...these problems will never become an issue. After all, if they found themselves in a "real" emergency, the wise ambulance driver would take the patient to a "real" hospital. However, as long as UHS purports to boast full-service emergency care, and not simply to serve as a makeshift clinic, it should live up to its responsibility to ensure that the patients get immediate and expert care...