Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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William Wycherly was one of the better writers from this period, and The Country Wife is one of his better plays, some say the best. The plot revolves around a professional rake named Horner, who with the help of his doctor, Quack, convinces the men of London society that he is impotent. Led by Sir Jaspar Fidget, these men of court eagerly dump their wives on Horner in the hopes that his "harmless" company will keep them away from young swains who would sooner cuckold a husband than look at one. Naturally, Horner spends the rest of the play leaping...
...suburban New Jersey, 13 patients die mysteriously during 1965 and 1966. Ten years later, a reporter for the New York Times, M.A. (for Myron Abba) Farber, reveals that mostly empty vials of a powerful and potentially lethal drug called curare were found in the locker of a certain "Doctor X." The state begins to investigate. What some experts believe to be traces of curare are found in exhumed bodies, and a grand jury indicts the man Farber, in his stories, had carefully called only Doctor X?Surgeon Mario Jascalevich?for allegedly murdering five patients...
From the start, the case had the ingredients of a Hollywood whodunit. But when the defense, claiming a frame-up, demanded to see the reporter's notes, the Doctor X trial was transformed into a clash of constitutional principles as well. Citing the First Amendment and a New Jersey "shield law" giving a reporter the privilege of refusing to disclose confidential sources, Farber and the Times refused to turn over anything. The result: a head-on collision between the First and Sixth Amendments, between the constitutional claims of free press and fair trial...
...John Marshall, head of obstetrics and gynecology at Los Angeles County's Harbor General Hospital. How sure could anyone be that the Browns' baby will not be deformed, he asked. "What if we got an otherwise perfectly formed individual that was a cyclops? Who is responsible? The parents? The doctor? Is the government obligated to take care...
...despite the British team's long experience, the procedure had never resulted in a live birth. To bring it off successfully requires scientific ingenuity, surgical dexterity and, some might say, a lot of plain luck. The doctor must remove the egg at the exact moment in the monthly cycle when it has reached maturity. To ensure the success of that crucial initial step, Steptoe and Edwards follow a standard procedure for treating infertility: they administer fertility hormones, like those that have been responsible for the rash of multiple births in recent years. That encourages the ripening of several eggs...