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...years in internal medicine. To tap its expertise, a physician enters information about a patient (age, sex, symptoms, lab data) and waits briefly while the computer sifts through the 4,000-odd symptoms and notes in its data base and comes up with a list of possible illnesses. The doctor can then direct the machine toward one condition in particular, or switch the computer to an interrogative mode, in which it will ask for additional pertinent facts. Caduceus has already passed some difficult tests. Says Myers: "It regularly diagnoses the tricky cases published as clinical puzzles in The New England...
...theory as well as the Internationale. (The Chinese Communist Party was not founded until 1921.) Later, as a member of the Chinese Socialist Youth League in France, Deng was assigned to mimeograph its journal, Red Light, a task he performed with such zeal that his fellow activists nicknamed him "Doctor of Mimeography...
...taping he finally berates himself--"Drink, drink, drink. Smoke, smoke, smoke. Schmuck, schmuck, schmuck!"--and tries to change his ways. Through it all, the perfectionist raises pop singing to an art, and the philanthropist never quits. How has Ol' Blue Eyes endured and prevailed for five decades? A doctor, naming Sinatra an honorary staff member of a hospital for which he had raised the funds, has the bottom line. The title, he says, is superfluous: "Frank's been operating for years...
...months after obtaining his license to practice medicine in 1980, Michael O'Brien sued to divorce his wife Loretta, who had worked to support them both while he studied and trained to be a doctor. The New York State Court of Appeals has now decided that the medical license earned by O'Brien during his marriage is "marital property" and that his ex-wife is entitled to a portion of it--a share that one lower court calculated to be worth $188,800. The court noted that Loretta O'Brien had sacrificed her educational and career opportunities to further those...
...being challenged by Corazon Aquino, 52, has revived the rumors about his health. He has canceled a number of public appearances, blaming "unpredictable weather." Then on Friday, before a speech in Pangasinan province, Marcos' left hand began to bleed, and he had to be treated onstage by a doctor and nurse. On Saturday in Calapan, Marcos wore a large bandage on his left hand and adhesive strips on his right. He insisted that the bleeding had come from being scratched by overeager supporters trying to shake his hands...