Word: doctoral
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...cases, hospitalizations and deaths from the disease have included only laboratory-confirmed cases of H1N1 - a figure that agency officials were well aware captured only a sliver of the actual population of affected Americans. Many patients who come down with flu never go to a hospital or see a doctor and never get an official diagnosis. Many other flu patients who are admitted to the hospital may not be tested for H1N1 and may be treated under a different diagnosis. They may die from a complication, such as pneumonia, which is not reported as a case of influenza. (See pictures...
...temperatures that make bedsharing essential to survival, the culture has changed. We can’t pretend we still live in those halcyon days when your parents arranged your whole romantic life for you and the only things you had to worry about were catching polio or that your doctor would use too many leeches. We have to find our own ways of making choices, instead of quietly contracting dysentery to escape unfavorable matches the way we used...
...once I reached you, all I wanted was a sling for my arm and some stitches for my head. Instead, you gave me a heavy dose of disdain and blame. You openly doubted my story of injuring myself while dancing, even after I told both a nurse and doctor that I had congenitally loose shoulder joints. You looked at me skeptically when I explained how I fell. You asked if I had been drinking, and when I admitted that I had, you rudely thrust a Breathalyzer into my face to register my BAC. At somewhere between...
...wouldn’t make a fuss about this, UHS, if I felt that this treatment was a unique situation. It’s not that I’m singling out the first doctor as malevolent. I understand she was just stressed out, overworked, tired. But you are staffed with academics like her who did not sign on for this, who prefer the low-simmer stress of the classroom to the adrenaline spikes of the emergency room. They are wonderful when it comes to the quotidian checkups that most of us use you for—but when...
...Enke's doctor, Valentin Markser, said the player contracted a bacterial intestinal infection in October that forced him to sit out a number of games. Despite the fact the infection brought on more bouts of depression, Markser said Enke refused to go to a clinic for treatment. "Despite daily treatment for months, we didn't succeed in preventing his suicide," he said...