Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will have to ask if there's a doctor in the house...
...creation 23 years ago. The new legislation is designed to prevent 31 million elderly and disabled Americans from being wiped out by the crippling cost of hospitalization. Among other things, the bill provides unlimited free hospital care after a $589 deductible is reached, a $1,400 annual limit on doctor's fees and a portion of outpatient drugs...
...insisted on creating a backwoods image as "Old Hickory." Prominent achievers like Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison and Henry Ford all fit the profile. Others that make the grade are less well known. They include a Long Island vampire expert, a California professor of frog psychology and a Virginia doctor who disports himself in a clown's nose and goofy hats and refuses to charge his patients...
...threat to peer review. Though the A.M.A. admits the procedure may have gone awry in Patrick's case, it would have preferred a resolution at the state level rather than through federal antitrust laws. Antitrust damages are especially painful because they come out of a doctor's own pocket, notes A.M.A. General Counsel Kirk Johnson. "Antitrust is the atom bomb of lawsuits...
...episodes, Seurat was allowed a brief visit in August 1985 with his wife and daughters in Beirut, and then returned to the cell loaded down with sociology books. It was the last time he saw his family. A month later, he was deathly ill with hepatitis. A Lebanese Jewish doctor, Elie Hallat, who was also a hostage, pleaded in vain for Seurat's release. As his condition worsened, a Shi'ite commander volunteered a transfusion. "You are becoming a Shi'ite," joked a captor after Seurat was given blood. In fact, the researcher was dying. By then French Hostages Marcel...