Word: doctor
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...novel in this century has drawn such worldwide acclaim," said the London Daily Express of Doctor Zhivago. That was the trouble. By the time an English version reached the U.S. in 1958, two years after Boris Pasternak had sent his manuscript out of the Soviet Union, the novel's potential readers were already weary, and wary, of the Pasternak affair. It had been in the headlines for more than a year. In literary circles, skepticism and envy were aroused by the celebrity of the author and by his Nobel Prize. More disturbing to some intellectuals was the political aspect...
Thus when Edmund Wilson declared in 1959 that the novel would "come to stand as one of the great events in man's literary and moral history," scarcely anybody seemed to believe him. Since then it has been principally Russian exiles and specialists who have persisted in treating Doctor Zhivago as a masterwork of 20th century fiction. For all the attention the book has received from American critics, Doctor Zhivago might be a novelization of the movie of the same name...
...people who contract herpes go through stages similar to those of mourning for the death of a loved one: shock, emotional numbing, isolation and loneliness, sometimes serious depression and impotence. Often there is a frantic search for a doctor who will give a different diagnosis, or a kind of magical bargaining with the disease ("Maybe if I don't have sex for a while, it will go away"). Almost always there is rage?at the carrier, the opposite sex in general and the medical profession. Says a Los Angeles woman: "When I first got it, I wanted to pass...
...again and again the feeling that they are unclean, dirty. "We're all looking for someone to love," says a New York woman, a freelance artist. "In this world our chances seem so slim anyway. Then you add herpes and you think, 'Why should anyone want me now?' " A doctor in Amityville, N.Y., says the same glum view has invaded the ranks of teenage herpes sufferers, who come into his office, cry and say, "No one will ever want to marry...
...disease, walked out. So did a later boyfriend. "Now I don't tell anybody, and I won't unless I'm having a serious relationship," she says. "What am I supposed to do, say 'How do you do, my name's Ilene, I have herpes'?" Surprisingly, many doctors counsel silence on the first encounter, mostly because their patients' psyches are shaky. "Due to the rejection some of my patients were getting," says New York Gynecologist Michael Truppin, "I finally began advising them not to tell initially. If they tell at first, the other person disappears." Says another doctor: "Every time...