Word: doctor
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Paul O'Byrne was a sickly child. He often had trouble breathing and woke frequently at night, coughing and wheezing. No medication or other treatment seemed to help, and when O'Byrne was six a Dublin doctor explained to his parents that, for some unknown reason, cold, damp climates worsened the child's asthma. He advised them to leave Ireland for a dryer, warmer place...
Yurt, 52, began specializing in burn treatment while he was a doctor in the U.S. Army. Since he took over the burn unit, he has expanded the team to include highly specialized nurses and even a chaplain, who ministers not only to patients and their families but also to staff members, who are exposed daily to unnerving sights and suffering...
...there's a group of Kansas nurses who think they have a better idea. Most of the time, they note, people seek a doctor for what is known as primary care: the aches and pains, the colds and allergies that are readily treatable. Those also happen to be the sorts of illnesses that nurse practitioners--registered nurses who have undergone an extra two years of medical training--are particularly adept at taking care of. So if doctors are scarce, then why not increase the number of nurse practitioners? And if moving to the city for training creates too many temptations...
...Idaho, Dr. Jill Seaman, whose previous experience had been providing public-health services to Yup'ik Eskimos in the Alaskan wilderness. In an eight-year struggle against the disease, Seaman developed a wealth of clinical expertise in treating thousands of kala-azar patients, perhaps more than any other single doctor in history...
...Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Four years earlier, she had taken a break from her job in Alaska to work with Ethiopian refugees at a camp in Sudan but came to realize that she needed more training in tropical medicine. When MSF was scouting at the school for a doctor to take on kala-azar in Sudan, she signed up immediately...