Word: doctor
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Most family doctors double as pharmacists. That dual role was officially sanctioned more than 100 years ago, when druggists were scarce; it continues today even though Japan also has more than 120,000 pharmacists. One of the most severe criticisms of Japanese medicine made by Westerners is that family doctors overprescribe. An American scholar who recently consulted a Japanese doctor for a mildly sprained ankle came away with a muscle relaxant, an anti-inflammatory drug, a stomach powder to ease the side effects of the drugs, and a foot plaster. In the U.S., he probably would have been told...
Patients with serious symptoms are sent by the local doctor to see specialists in a hospital; they, too, are often not as rigorously trained and supervised as their American counterparts. "There is no licensing system or qualification test as a specialist," says Dr. Yasuyuki Hosoda, a leading heart surgeon who practices at Tokyo's Toranomon Hospital. Hosoda spent six years as a resident and researcher at the Cleveland Clinic and worked for ten years at the Borgess Medical Center in Kalamazoo, Mich...
...Third Mouse, a government tutor, reminded me of a skilled doctor with cold hands. Unable to impart his higher knowledge in an even mildly appealing way, he prefaced his answers to students questions with the statement. "Well, I think it's rather obvious." After a few intensely awkward discussions in which I tried and failed to get him to explain certain aspects of American government out of the distant realm of theory, I came to the conclusion that he probably hadn't yet done so himself...
...additional loans that would save the country from default. Backing down from its earlier demand, the BIS announced that it could wait for its $400 million until Brazil had new IMF money. Confident that the immediate financial crisis was past, Figueiredo jetted away to keep his doctor's appointment...
Harvest time is coming to the fertile Southwest, and with it one of its biggest cash crops will blossom in fields, along roadsides and in suburban backyard gardens: marijuana. Call the police? Sure, but don't forget the doctor. It turns out that marijuana is no friend to allergy sufferers. Dr. Geraldine Freeman, in a study published by the Western Journal of Medicine, finds that pot pollen may be as irritating to some respiratory systems as ragweed. In a seven-month survey of 129 patients' reactions to various substances, Freeman found that about 50% of those tested showed...