Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gonorrhea and the conviction that he can do very nicely without any more sex in the future. During his years at Harvard Medical School, Larch develops a fondness for sniffing ether and a knowledge of the appalling problems that unwanted pregnancies bring to the poor women of Boston. The doctor settles in St. Cloud's, Maine's most "charmless" town, where he founds an orphanage. Over the years, he puts the treatment of women in trouble above the law. As he explains, "I help them have what they want. An orphan or an abortion...
There is no shortage of old wives' tales about the virtues of eating fish: it is "brain food," according to legend, and cod-liver oil is a cure for all that ails. The wives may have been onto something. Eating a little fish a day may indeed keep the doctor away, particularly the cardiologist. That is the implication of three new studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine...
...champion seller, arms out to lead a client into the pink, louvered privacy of the dressing rooms. Once inside, the client keeps up the conversation, almost a stream of consciousness, rambling from how her daddy picked her name to her plans for furnishing her new condo to her doctor's decision about her thyroid. Like a good Southern girl, she remains sociable and enthusiastic, even at 65, in her underwear...
...Start being a human being!" There are many of these moments in Streetwise, a film by Director-Cameraman Martin Bell, Mary Ellen Mark and Cheryl McCall, about adolescents adrift on the streets of Seattle. The first, surely, is when Erin, one of the principal subjects, calmly discusses with a doctor how she became a prostitute before she had had her first period. Another occurs when her alcoholic mother suggests that streetwalking may merely be a phase Erin is going through. A third happens when another of the "leads," the undersize DeWayne, visits his father in jail. Through glass, via telephone...
...Bulow's maid of 23 years, Maria Schrallhammer, an overwrought, slightly bowed woman who could have stepped out of a whodunit. Schrallhammer recounted how her mistress had slipped into a coma while Von Bulow, sitting unperturbed on the bed reading in his bathrobe and pajamas, resisted calling a doctor for nearly five hours. "I picked her up and was holding her in my arms until the doctor came," said Schrallhammer, tears brimming in her eyes...