Word: doctor
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...group of bishops and deans of St. John the Divine's Cathedral in New York City, where she has at last settled down for good. She has always tended to accumulate proteges, and within two weeks of her arrival she is heavily involved in the lives of a career doctor who lives downstairs: a once promising teenage ballet dancer newly crippled in a car accident: a young bishop who looks strikingly like a man by whom Katherine secretly bore a child: and the bishop's retired predecessor, Felix Bodeway, who also figured in a previous L 'Engle novel about Katherine...
Wasp, though not L 'Engle's first "adult" book, carries all the faint creakiness of a hitherto cloister adult valiantly tackling "the real world." Her multiplicity of competing threads and emotions occasionally betrays her into a line straight out of soap opera ("She did not want the perspicacious doctor to guess that she was fascinated by the attractive young bishop"), but more often it reduces Katherine to a passive, dubious on looked at the complexity. She hardly knows what to think when her old friend, Felix, unexpectedly tells her the spent years cruising the gave bars Greenwich Village or when...
...patient. The projected savings: $1.5 billion in fiscal 1984 and $20.4 billion by 1988. The Administration plan has other cost-slashing measures, including a oneyear freeze on Medicare fees paid to physicians, nominal but mandatory $1 to $2 assessments on the nation's 22.2 million Medicaid patients for doctor and hospital visits, and an optional voucher system by which Medicare benefits could be exchanged for a private insurance policy...
This personal world of housecalls and stethoscopes in black bags is gone. "Instead of spending forty-five minutes listening to the chest and palpating the abdomen, the doctor can sign a slip which sends the patient off to the X-ray department for a CT scan," Thomas observes, continuing later that "the doctor can set himself, if he likes, at a distance, remote from the patient and the family, never touching anyone beyond a perfunctory handshake as the first and only contact...
...YOUNGEST SCIENCE IS not just a graceful account of the impact of 20th century scientific advances on the practice of medicine; the book is also Thomas' autobiography. Something of an impressionistic self-portrayal, it paints him at various points in his life: his youth with a doctor and a nurse as parents, his time at the Med School, his first internship in Boston, and his moves around the country as he took positions at different medical schools...