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First prize for the Best Individual Costume at the professional level goes without question to Fran Tarkenton, who looked more like a Lebanese dermatologist than a quarterback on Super Bowl Sunday. Fran had the advantage of working on his costume ahead of time, boning up for Sunday's dismal performance with a passing day in the NFC championship game two weeks earlier that was almost as bad. It was a Jekyll-Hyde job without peer...
...figure cutting across the ice at Madison Square Garden had hardly changed since the Winter Olympics in 1968. After gliding off from Grenoble with a gold medal for figure skating, Peggy Fleming had spent eight years on the ice-show circuit, married a dermatologist and, by last week, decided to put her career into the deep freeze temporarily. The reason: her first child, due in January. "We wanted to have a baby for a long time, but it just didn't happen," said Fleming, 28. "I decided to go back to work and start thinking about other things. Sure...
When a young dermatologist named William Summerlin first reported in 1973 that he had succeeded in transplanting skin from a white man to a black and from one species of mouse to another, immunologists were intrigued. By the spring of 1974, their interest had turned to incredulity. One researcher after another reported an inability to duplicate the transplants. Summerlin, who had moved from the University of Minnesota to New York's Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, found himself under enormous pressure. One March morning, he gathered up a dozen grafted mice and started upstairs from his laboratory...
...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...