Word: doctor
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...equally dedicated inventor of the device, Dr. Robert Jarvik, 36, was also present. The son of a doctor, Jarvik designed his first medical invention, a surgical stapler, while still in high school. His interest in the heart was prompted by his father's battle with cardiac disease. A spare-time sculptor, Jarvik was able to combine his artistic and medical interests as a design engineer at Utah's artificial-organ program beginning in 1971; he earned his medical degree there...
...District Court in Denver, it contends that the psychiatrist misdiagnosed Hinckley as having only minor problems and rejected his parents' suggestions that he be institutionalized. They had a dozen sessions in his Evergreen, Colo., office, the final one a month before the shootings. The suit charges that the doctor failed to warn police of "the reasonable likelihood that Hinckley would attempt a political assassination," despite Hinckley's admission that his "mind was on the breaking point." Hinckley, judged innocent by reason of insanity, is confined at a federal mental hospital in Washington...
...poised for a career in opera. Then, early last year, the glands in his neck became swollen and remained so for months on end. By summer, two small dark spots had appeared on his legs. At the urging of a friend, Jack, a homosexual, went to a doctor. The swollen glands were a sign that his immune system was depressed; the penny-size leg spots were Kaposi's sarcoma (KS), the so-called gay cancer. During the next half-year, Jack (not his real name) began chemotherapy and struggled against a series of infections. In the process, he lost...
Cole writes with a conviction marred by problems in execution. The script seems dramatically contrived, with the psychologist serving less as a character than as a forced interlocutor. When Jackson refuses to answer a question, his doctor provides facile exposition by reciting information from Jackson's life. Worse, the doctor's prescription--for Jackson to give back the medal so he will recover--makes the insidious implication that the hundreds of veterans who did return their medals did so to assuage psychological problems. Cole seems to ignore the political protest that the action represented. As the doctor, Pochoda brings concern...
Their idyllic life is interupted when Bob unexpectedly learns that a doctor with whom be had a brief affair in France 10 years ago earlier had borne him a son. Stunned. Bob returns home to destroy Sheila's image of their marriage as honest and perfect. He insists. "She meant nothing to me"! Sheila, tearful and revulsed: "Don't touch me!" The audience has seen it all before...