Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...WRITE this off as just another horror story about the University Health Service (UHS), but a few nights ago my roommate and I were horsing around and he accidentally ripped off all of my limbs. I couldn't get an appointment with my real doctor until early in the fall, so I had to pick up the pieces and walk over...
Remember February, 1986. Hundreds of Massachusetts physicians decided to strike. On only three times before had doctor's walked off the job: once in Southern California in 1975, once in Florida in 1984, and once in New York in 1985. The February affair was featured in Boston newspapers and on the 6:00 p.m. news...
...Three hours later we were sitting with Misha Borlov and his family. Borlov's name has been changed. He is a scientist who was expelled from his job after applying for a visa in 1980. A few years later, officials voted to strip him of his Doctor of Science degree because of his "anti-political activity." Similarly, his wife, a chemist, is now unemployed. His daughter Marina, a bright woman who reads English literature voraciously, now baby-sits full time. Before applying to leave, she was studying chemical engineering; the university failed her and forced her to leave school...
...SERVICES (UHS) is the subject of constant student complaints. Stories of long lines, misdiagnosis, and poor treatment abound. These gripes are generally the murmurings of the dissatisfied and the indisposed, who find that institutionalized medical care can't match the standards established by Mom, Dad and the genial family doctor...
...anorexia nervosa in high school. At one point she weighed 97 pounds. She remembers that she couldn't admit that she had a problem, that she would look in the mirror and see herself as fat, even after losing 30 pounds. Her mother finally forced her to see a doctor...