Word: dermatologist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...number of suits has been increasing partly because patients are better informed and less tolerant of physicians' mistakes-which do happen more often than doctors would like to admit. Ever more dependent upon specialists, patients also feel fewer qualms about suing a brain surgeon or dermatologist than they would their old and trusted family physician. At the same time, fat malpractice cases are more and more appealing to lawyers, who stand to keep as much as one-third to one-half of any damages awarded by a court...
After a couple of hours at Del Rio's, Jackson may pick up the younger sister of one of the A's former ball girls and drive her and her mother to a dermatologist to have the girl's acne checked. Jackson pays the bill for the examination and any follow-up care. "When you leave your friends," he says, "they should feel better-whether you gave them a dime or a dollar, ten minutes of your time, looked at them with a smile or just told them they looked great." In carrying out his philosophy...
...then, of course, there came the dermatologist stage. Chocolates were forbidden, along with everything else that had kept you functioning all those years. It was almost too much to bear. And if you ever tried to snack surreptitiously, you really did break out. I've decided, though, it was from guilt, not chocolates...
...singular flair. For their 1974 plates, 56,000 Texans decided to stamp their characters on their cars, a personality display so fascinating to Houston's Harriett Adams that she has brought out a book on the subject called Who's Who on Texas Highways & Bi-ways. A dermatologist selected SKIN for his plate, a surgeon chose CUT UP, and a dentist picked SAY AHH. The owner of a mattress shop took SLEEP, a salvage contractor used JUNKIE, and a pharmacist chose PILL. Various Volkswagen owners have labeled their beetles LUV BUG, V-DBL-U and EL BUG. Ernest...
Earlier this month, Morgan faced the Supreme Court to defend the rights of Howard Levy, a dermatologist and army captain who in 1965 refused to train Green Berets on the grounds that combat troops would abuse medical skills. Morgan has chased the case since then under the banner of the Nuremberg principle--that members of the armed forces may legally disobey orders if following them would constitute war crimes. The Court has not yet ruled on Levy's case...