Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minutes of striding and strolling, 102 days after the heart attack that cast certainties into doubt the world over, the President turned to Dr. Howard Snyder, the man who had first tended him in Denver. "Can I walk some more?" the President hopefully wanted to know. "Sure," the doctor replied...
...French Revolution, Dr. Manette had been a shoemaker. After release he lost his memory, but regained it when he came to London. He continued to have memory lapses periodically, leaving his practice with each lapse to return to shoemaking. Finally, a friend helped Dr. Manette analyze his behavior. The doctor came to realize that the shoe maker's bench was a symbol of his unhappy past and of what now would be called his neurosis, and he consented to destroy it. But before long he was demanding it again, and this time the relapse was permanent. He became...
...doctor has no right to speed a patient's end by euthanasia, or "mercy killing," no matter how hopeless his condition. But neither, declares Dr. Francis T. Hodges, 48, a general practitioner in San Francisco, has the doctor any right to prolong a "hopeless" patient's life by extraordinary feats of medicine...
...cardinal smilingly confesses. "All my life [I have] shirked nothing, ducked nothing, overcome everything." All day no rest, all night no sleep. One day an old woman is wheeled into the interrogation chamber on a stretcher: it is his mother. She will be sent to the research hospital, the doctor says, unless there is a confession. The exhausted cardinal breaks down, recovers, refuses. "I do not love my mother," he confesses bitterly. "I never have...
...hole in the dike. The doctor enlarges it, brings the churchman at last to confess crimes he has never committed in order to punish himself for the sins he is truly guilty of. Too late the exhausted cardinal realizes his mistake: a man may not judge himself any more than he may judge another. Defaced, the living monument is set free, "to walk the world like Cain." He goes to meet his fate, far worse than death to his human pride, with a simple courage that leaves the interrogator shaken. "It means," the doctor says wonderingly, "you've defeated...