Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that the first cases might have been caused by some "environmental irritant." Investigators had noted the presence of a yellow powder, possibly pollen, on some windowsills of one school near Jenin, and the air in the vicinity of the school was found to contain a trace of hydrogen sulfide. Doctors in Hebron observed slightly excessive amounts of calcium and sodium in the blood of some of their patients. Said one local doctor: "There is no sign of poisoning. Still, something has happened to these girls...
...traces his adjustment to the challenges and idiosyncracies he found in Saudi Arabia. Built with proceeds from the sale of Saudi Arabian oil, the hospital is "one of the newest and best-equipped in the world." Most of its patients, however, especially the desert nomads, have never seen a doctor before and believe no medical care can help them if Allah wants them to die. Better-educated Saudis, including numerous princes and princesses, rarely get medical care at home, preferring the better-known hospitals abroad. Gray's vivid anecdotes tell of other incongruities of the country: royal patients who demand...
...country where women spend their lives covered from head to toe in several layers of black fabric. They were still getting their bearings when a prince, a special friend of the king's needed treatment for an ulcer. His high status and the awkward timing made the doctor's visit a test case for the entire hospital. Dr. Hugh Compton, the hospital's director of medical affairs, told...
Gray is a doctor, not an author, and his writing occasionally wanders into verbosity. But the pace of his storytelling never lags. As a doctor, Gray had access to both the rich and the poor, seeing more facets of the Saudi culture than a diplomat might. The narrative skips around in time as the author tries, sometimes confusingly, to cram all of three years of experience into 300 pages; he shares dinner with a Bedouin tribe, attends a royal wedding, and spends a great deal of time in conversations with a wide range of Saudi patients and acquaintances, from poor...
Soon after, Renee Richards, a tall, strapping eye doctor with an aggressive game of tennis, joined the staff of a top Southern California opthamology clinic. She quickly gained respect in the clinic for her expert eye work and tennis game. Few people knew much about her shadowy background...