Word: cocktailing
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...novel, “The Third People.” The bite of UGD is often soft, which may be why Random House sent the book straight to paperback. But the message is always fierce, like the character who tells a woman at a cocktail party of the three possessions he would bring on a desert island—“Bob Dylan’s ‘Highway 61 Revisited,’ James Merrill’s Collected Poems, and my lucky Sonic Youth T-shirt”—then actually ends up stranded...
...clearly good reasons for this; medicine as a whole is getting better and we expect higher levels of knowledge in our docs. I certainly wouldn't want anyone but a neurosurgeon dissecting a tumor out of my brain, or anyone but smart oncologist coming up with the drug cocktail that might save my life from a cancer. It's usually not that hard, though. The great bulk of patient visits are for really simple things - questions that a reasonably bright resident would get right. Most pneumonias, for example, are pretty easy to treat; the internist should have no trouble doing...
That, however, was not the end of it. The body still had to be sliced and diced by a medical examiner, who predictably concluded that the cause of death was a toxic cocktail of prescription drugs—from methadone to choral hydrate (an ingredient of animal tranquilizers)—in her bloodstream...
...it’s clear that the campaigns aren’t defined by the shows, we have to make sure that the shows aren’t defined by the campaigns, either. So far, so good: I surely haven’t seen a change in my entertainment cocktail (four objectionable TV shows, mounds of explicit lyrics-laced music, and the very occasional hour of coarse videogaming). At least, not yet. But as the stakes get higher (and really, what’s higher than the highest office in all of the land?), the fight to restrict my entertainment...
...vessels, which nourish their growth. Avastin, approved in 2004, is the first drug to throw a wrench into the process by suppressing a tumor's ability to recruit vascular growth factors. As with many of the newer therapies, doctors have found that it works best as part of a cocktail of cancer drugs...