Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last bastion of human resource: hope. It counterbalances the bitter, estranged characters of the other stories with its forced entrance into the horror that can sometimes be real life. The Husband (each character is given not a name, but a title: the Mother, the Husband, the Baby, the Doctor) says to the Mother: "You know, this is the kind of thing you've always written about," to which she responds, "You are really something, you know that? This is life. This isn't a `kind of thing...
...never fails. You're sitting in your doctor's examining room wrapped in a paper gown. You've asked every question you can think of and tried to absorb the rapid-fire answers. But when you get home, you realize there's one maybe-not-so-urgent item you left out. Do you a) call your doctor's office and play telephone tag for the next three days, or b) log on to the Internet and seek out an online physician...
Consider my experience with America's Doctor Online, which was launched last month on AOL. The service (keyword: amdoc) provides free access to a real-time electronic chat with one of about 40 M.D.s 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The brainchild of Dr. Scott Rifkin, an internist who practices in Owings Mills, Md., America's Doctor Online offers a small library of medical information. For more complete resources, check out the American Heart Association www.amhrt.org or the Mayo Clinic www.mayohealth.org...
...first thing I am asked to do when I log on to America's Doctor Online is wait. "There are 32 people ahead of you," the screen says. Pretty realistic, I think. Next time I'll bring a magazine. Ten minutes later, I'm in a one-on-one chat with Amdoc4. I ask him one of my standard test questions: "Why don't my HDL and LDL numbers add up to my total cholesterol number?" And he answers, correctly, that there are other factors like VLDL...
America's Doctor does a good job of protecting your privacy. The doctors can't even see your name. Other websites make you post your questions in public forums...