Word: doctoral
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would shoot her if she cried. That night I slept in an abandoned house, and the next day I went down to the main road. A rebel saw me waiting there and took me to the Summer Time clinic [a small clinic with a nurse but no doctor]. He gave me a bowl of rice. Then the other rebels came and took away the rice. They said they would kill anyone who said a word about what had happened. I was in the clinic for a few days. Then the Red Cross came and took me to hospital...
Later that same day, I walked from my village--about three miles' walk--to one of the peacekeepers' bases. Then they took me to the hospital about three days later. A German Doctors Without Borders doctor did the operation on my arms at Connaught Hospital in Freetown. After the operation, I slept for two days. I couldn't speak because of my mouth--I was just looking around. They were feeding me from a drip. It was a week before I could eat or drink. After three weeks, my wife came to the hospital to find...
...both the power to re-create ourselves and the moral muscles to resist? "The time to talk about it in schools and churches and magazines and debate societies is now," says bioethicist Arthur Caplan of the University of Pennsylvania. "If you wait, five years from now the gene doctor will be hanging out the MAKE A SMARTER BABY sign down the street...
James B. Stewart's Blind Eye: How the Medical Establishment Let a Doctor Get Away with Murder (Simon & Schuster; 334 pages; $25) is a persuasive case against Dr. Michael Swango, a handsome, over-confident physician suspected of poisoning between 35 and 60 patients and co-workers from Illinois to Zimbabwe...
...guise of a physician." However inconvenient, writers have to obey libel laws; too many lawyers are watching. But where were the language police when Stewart chose the word guise? It means semblance, and if we know anything for sure, it is that Swango did not resemble a doctor...