Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...owner and wearer of more than 40 different hats, I enjoyed your Essay "In Praise of Serious Hats" [April 25]. I have a special reason for using one. Years ago my doctor recommended that I wear a hat to reduce sinus trouble because heat rises and keeps your head warm...
...projects, even if successful, can result in resentment of U.S. influence. The absurd lengths to which it can be stretched were revealed last week in the West German parliament when members of the antinuclear Green Party charged that the U.S. was responsible for the death of a West German doctor who was executed by contras in Nicaragua two weeks ago. Party Leader Petra Kelly raised a banner in front of the speaker's podium reading: SUPPORTING THE U.S.A. MEANS TO BE IMPLICATED IN THE DEATH OF ALBRECHT PFLAUM...
Pringle can handle most of the deficiencies of modern medicine: indifferent nurses, inept interns and medical students who observe a parent-doctor conference "like bright-eyed evaluators for a game show." But the bureaucracy is unendurable: "I feel like an immigrant unable to get through customs." Listening to Eric as he receives injections, Pringle writes, "My child shouldn't be stuck and made to scream. We have lost control...
Kaplan's walk cost her a fractured skull, four crushed vertebrae, and other internal injuries, as well as $13,000 in hospital and doctor bills...
...injured in a July 20, 1944, bombing attempt on his life, and both of his forearms were swollen and swathed in bandages or compresses; yet the diaries include an entry apparently written that day. Historian Irving, in his new translation of The Secret Diaries of Hitler's Doctor, to be published next month, quotes Physician Theo Morell as saying, in a representative entry from Oct. 30,1944, "The Führer confided in me that after this renewed attack of pain the trembling in his leg and hands was much more violent." Pulitzer-Prizewinning Historian John Toland concurred with...