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...Doctor's Lament...
While the facts presented in "Throwing the Book at Doctors" [June 14] are essentially correct, the conclusions drawn by Dr. Michelle Harrison are truly irresponsible. Because of the current medical-legal climate, medicine is practiced in a defensive way. The average doctor may find himself performing tests and procedures that he would have considered unnecessary ten years ago, but which are now prescribed as a guard against possible mistakes in diagnosis and treatment. When people stop suing their doctors for errors in judgment, they will find themselves the recipients of less invasive and more comfortable medical treatment...
...bride and groom") to social philosophy ("Nostalgia is fueled by inflation"). Trillin finds that American satirists live in "constant danger of being blindsided by the truth." His twofold defense against that danger: to reduce large questions to the microscopic (President Reagan named as his Surgeon General a doctor once known as "the Tummy Tuck King of Palm Beach") and to enlarge the trivial to the grotesque ("Am I the only person who favors a law mandating life imprisonment for anyone who performs in public as a mime...
...does not vanish. The results are alarming. This month Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr. died. That was his final career change. His obituary listed nearly as many metamorphoses as Ovid did. Demara, "the Great Impostor," spent years a his life being successfully and utterly someone else: a Trappist monk, a doctor of psychology, a dean of philosophy at a small Pennsylvania college, a law student, a surgeon in the Royal Canadian Navy, a deputy warden at a prison in Texas. Demara took the protean itch and amateur's gusto, old American traits, to new frontiers of pathology and fraud...
...their rotor blades to push the rubber rafts to the safety of the beach. Ashore, all was chaos as casualties were brought to a makeshift field hospital and then flown by a continuous helicopter shuttle to the main British medical center at San Carlos Bay. Said an army doctor at Fitzroy: "I've seen some pretty awful injuries, but nothing as horrifying as this. All we can do is put on special burn dressings and get them back as soon as possible to a warm, sterile unit...