Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cambridge is abuzz with the rumor that President Bok will finally give Rodney Dangerfield the respect he insists he deserves, and award the saloon-keeper-Class Day speaker an honorary Doctor of Comedy degree at Thursday's Commencement exercises...
...like the one at Manhattan's St. Luke's Hospital Center, now flourish within existing medical institutions. In fact, at St. Luke's, the hospice patients are not kept in a "death ward," but are scattered throughout the hospital, where they are regularly visited by special doctors, nurses and counselors attached to the hospice program. Members of the regular hospital staff report that watching the way hospice people treat the terminally ill has helped them modify their own behavior. "When a patient knows he's dying," one doctor notes, "you can't just smile...
...first-time visitors from overseas, but if the nation wants to lure them back for second or third trips, it must improve and expand services. Only a few major cities have well-staffed visitor services that can help non-English-speaking tourists find their way about or locate a doctor on short notice. In hotels, restaurants and stores, it often seems that any language is spoken -just so it is English. Any money will be changed-so long as it is the U.S. dollar...
...chief resident in the overworked, understaffed obstetrics service at Boston City Hospital, performed an abortion on a 17-year-old. The operation terminated the patient's pregnancy and, for the time being, her problems. Edelin's woes were just beginning. By spring of the following year, the doctor found himself under indictment, and in January 1975, he went on trial for manslaughter...
Nolen, who recognizes that the object of an abortion is to end a pregnancy rather than deliver a live fetus, understands the jury's action. "Life is life," he writes, "and as a doctor, I believe Edelin could and should have worked to sustain that brief life." Nolen believes that Ede lin was guilty of manslaughter. But he admits that he could not have voted to convict. There was, he insists, reasonable doubt as to the baby's ever having been alive outside the uterus, and the doctor should have been given the benefit of this doubt. Says...