Word: doctor
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...born in Florence, the son of intensely Europhile parents (his father was a New England doctor, his mother a clinging neurasthenic who couldn't bear the crude culture of her birthplace). The Sargents were not rich, but they moved from one roost to another--Rome, Paris, Nice, Munich, Venice, the Austrian Tyrol--for the first 18 years of their son's life. All he retained of America was his passport and some traces of accent; yet he held onto both until his death. Sargent's relation to America was neither resentful nor yearning, as it is with so many expatriates...
Tall and silver-haired, with softly reassuring blue eyes, Dr. Patrick Christopher Steptoe looked as if he'd just stepped out of a Marcus Welby rerun. In fact, the kindly doctor was a medical revolutionary. On July 25, 1978, as hundreds of reporters descended on the sleepy English mill town of Oldham, the 65-year-old obstetrician delivered the world's first "test-tube baby," a healthy, 5-lb. 12-oz. girl aptly named Louise Joy Brown. Conceived in a lab dish, or in vitro, from the egg and sperm of a working-class couple who had tried for years...
FORT MYERS, Fla.--Nomar Garciaparra's ailing right elbow should heal completely and he should resume playing shortstop soon for the Boston Red Sox, the team's doctor said yesterday...
...left the team for the West Coast, where he had an MRI and was examined on Monday by Dr. Tony Daly, team doctor for the Los Angels Clippers of the NBA. On Tuesday, he was examined by Anaheim Angels physician Lewis Yocum, who spoke with Pappas...
...death option is not one very many terminally ill patients actually intend to exercise. Mostly the choice serves as a palliative, says Gorman, ?by just letting people know there?s another way out.? Which is why the Oregon model is the one that should be studied. Oregon?s doctor-assisted suicide law provides a carefully calibrated decision mechanism ?that is safe, reasonable and ethical,? says Gorman. No one has rushed, or was rushed, to die in the year since the Oregon law went into effect; so far, 15 terminally ill patients have chosen to die. Few really know whether...