Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that disturbs his local fishing pals is Lempke's recent habit of referring to May flies in Latin. Some years back, he decided to learn the Latin names to keep the myriad May flies straight in his head. He began reading up, and with periodic trips to his doctor in Idaho Falls, who helps him with Latin pronunciations, Lempke can now roll off the names with ease. He often prefaces a sermon at the local filling station on this or that May fly with the words, "Well, I hate to say this, but I don't believe those...
...French obstetrician, for example, inserted a hydrophone into the uterus of a woman about to give birth and tape-recorded what the fetus could hear: the mother's loudly thumping heartbeat, a variety of whooshing sounds, the muffled but distinguishable voices of the mother and her male doctor, and, from a distance, the clearly identifiable strains of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony...
...pedestal were just as quick to grind him into the earth. Though cured of his disease, many of the side effects lingered and came back to haunt him, including the countless women he married while pretending to be different men, the operations he performed while pretending to be a doctor, until finally he became the victim of a moral majority-type crusade...
...Japanese accept crowded hospitals in part because the system has improved during the past few decades. Before World War II, the family doctor would even keep a patient in a makeshift ward that was part of his house or clinic. Indeed, the Japanese do not complain a great deal about medical care in general. They rarely challenge the authority of their physicians by asking for a second opinion or questioning a diagnosis. Says Louise Shimizu, an American who teaches childbirth preparation classes in Tokyo: "It is always a struggle to get information. You cannot build up good relations with doctors...
...Japanese put up with such highhanded treatment largely because of the revered place that a white-coated doctor, a figure of authority, has long held in the culture. The physicians' incomes reflect their prestige. The typical family doctor working in his small, poorly equipped clinic makes about $67,000 a year, while a lawyer earns $31,000 and a university professor $29,000. In addition, although their income is taxed, doctors make thousands more on the side from tips that are discreetly passed on by patients. After her operation, the thyroid patient delivered a box of candy with five...