Word: doctor
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...dramatic changes in the practice of medicine during Thomas's lifetime are the focus of the book. When his father, also a doctor, practiced medicine in the early 1900s, few doctors profitted financially and most felt helpless because they couldn't cure patients. Medical schools focused on diagnosis, the art--and as Thomas describes it, it was an art--of determining an ailment from a few external symptoms. They learned how to recognize illnesses without being able to treat them...
...only have the tools at the doctor's disposal changed, but so has the doctor-patient relationship. In the early 1900s, a doctor was primarily a comforter, someone who stayed at the side of the patient and tried to guide him through his illness. More than anything, the doctor's function was the "laying on of hands," the handling and touching of the patient in an effort to provide much needed attention...
...luckier of the Jewish mathematicians. Coming into the field in the 1960s, before official discrimination against Jews had reached its current feverish pitch, he was able to complete graduate studies, receiving the equivalent of a Ph.D. in 1972 from Moscow State University. The highest degree possible, the Doctor of Sciences, would have proved next-to-impossible to achieve, recalls Bernstein, but he did manage to land a job with a research group at the university, studying mathematical methods in biology...
Although Phills will assuredly someday trade in his wrestling tights for a lab cost, his heart will remain close to the sport. "When I'm a chubby old doctor at Mass. General I'll probably still come over here and work out," he says...
Moore's portrayal of the psychiatrist who becomes as batty and sick as most of his patients is filled with the actor's typical English bawdiness. His movements and lines seem overly staged, however, especially a clumsy sequence which places the doctor in Chloe's shower. Moore specializes in nincompoop bumbling, so such inevitably stupid scenes crop up frequently. One dinner Benjamin has with the board of psychiatrists contains a few funny lines, but the characters speaking them--including the victimized doctor--come across as inanely one-dimensional...