Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Upon arriving at Harvard, many first-years are anxious to begin the journey down medicine lane. But armed with only one personal goals--the desire to become a doctor--they don't know how to go about achieving...
Graustein Professor of Mathematics Raoul Bott has a favorite story about the meandering path he took to become a mathematician. As a graduate student disillusioned by engineering, he went to the Dean of the Medical School at McGill University in Canada to see if he could become a doctor...
...Finally he said,'Is it to do good to humanity? Is that why you want to be a doctor?' I hesitated in answering this, and he said, 'Because they make the worst doctors.' I got out and said to myself, 'Thank you, you sonofabitch.'Then I said, 'OK, I'll be a mathematician, because that's what I like...
...always like this. Sometimes she does not recognize me and thinks I am a doctor. She complains of an ailment, which she expects me to treat. Sometimes she does not speak at all. Sometimes, when she manufactures a new narrative of our family history, she can be very funny...
...misfortunes and grotesqueries of others. Much of the time, Weegee is the poor man's Zapruder, the guy at the scene when the blood is still flowing, recording desperate moments that we can't help wanting to see for ourselves. His picture Victim of Auto Accident Waiting for Doctor is compelling not just because of the jagged diagonal slash of the composition but because it's a picture of a real person boxed into real agonies while some stranger pops a flashgun in her face. Four months after the death of Princess Diana, the picture is impossible to look...