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Which is why it is such a disappointment to see this year's truly awful coverage. at first I thought I was just being picky. Then I started hearing complaints from friends, relatives, supermarket clerks--even my dentist...
...MANY WOMEN, SEEING A GYNEcologist easily outranks visiting the dentist as their least favorite doctor's appointment. A dentist sometimes dispenses pain; a gynecologist too often delivers humiliation. Not only must women lie submissively in stirrups; they frequently must also endure the abasing attitudes of their doctors -- 80% of whom are men. Only the most radical feminists so far have suggested that women doctors alone should be treating women patients. Now, in a heretical stance sure to outrage the medical profession, a male gynecologist is propounding that view. "Men have no business being gynecologists," declares Dr. John Smith. "The role...
...some time to representing poor defendants. An attorney who ordinarily specializes in corporate cases or real estate, no matter how competent or well trained, would still be at sea amid the complexities of a murder trial. Says Shelly O'Neill, a Reno public defender: "It's like calling a dentist to do a brain surgeon's work...
...fame of these individuals merely due to their prior status as celebrities. People also become celebrities if they symbolize the blameless AIDS sufferer, as did Kimberly Bergalis when she contracted AIDS from her dentist last year. My intention is not to brush aside these patients' sufferings or to impugn their motives, but to point out the cultural trend of recognizing two separate and unequal classes of AIDS patients...
...Yamaguchi, Olympic glory is the culmination of a single-minded 14-year quest. She is a fourth-generation American, raised in Fremont, where her father is a dentist. Kristi was born with clubfeet, but the condition was corrected, and by six she was on the ice for keeps. For years she was a superior pairs skater as well and often competed solo with scant practice. It may be a result of giving up the dual assignment, or moving to Edmonton, Alberta, for training, or perhaps the onset of maturity, but in the past year or so she has forged...