Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...difficulties of managing the malpractice insurance increases are compounded by a state law that requires physicians to charge only what the patients' medical insurance will allow. This means that regardless of actual costs, the maximum fee a doctor can charge is determined by the patient's insurance rates...
Another recent grad who snapped up an administrative post was Lisa Chertkov '85, a patient advocate at University Health Services. As a doctor-patient liason, she serves on several committees and also handles complaints, comments and suggestions from users of the health services...
...energy was prodigious. While her husband was in law school, she picked up a master's degree in education from Bowie State College in Maryland. Expecting her first child, she started to keep a diary in a spiral notebook, recording doctor's appointments, visitors, the deeds of the family cats. "This was my history for my children," she said. "I would have loved to know my mother's life that way." She threw herself into community work, leading a Girl Scout troop, working in day-care units and raising money for the local hospital. Teaching full time...
...Nine years later a double-bypass was performed. But in both instances the vessels that had been grafted around his heart became plugged with fatty plaque. When the second bypass failed, Lewis had run out of standard medical options. "I was in a dead-end situation," he recalls. "My doctor gave me less than a year to < live...
...Beverly Hills office of Dr. Barry Weintraub, Leila Ali, an Iranian- born clothing designer, stares at an image of her face on a television screen, fascinated by its changing profile. Beside her, the doctor manipulates a stylus on an electromagnetic pad. As they watch, the nose on Ali's TV image undergoes a subtle transformation, becoming less prominent and more turned...