Word: doctorate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Making the rounds with a doctor uncle, young Tom saw many such cases. The mother of one of his best friends died of pellagra. Tom decided to be a physician...
...Everything's All Right." That evening-as the doctor and his mistress later told the story-Marie-Claire Evenou complained of a toothache, and her husband affectionately suggested a sleeping pill to ease the pain. As soon as she was asleep, Dr. Evenou rang the phone in Simone's apartment twice. A moment later, his mistress stood beside him in her stocking feet. Dr. Evenou uncovered his wife's breast. "Strike here!" he said. Simone struck, and Marie-Claire woke in a shock. "Simone," she cried. "No. No." Dr. Evenou held her close in his arms. "There...
After a day or two, the subject came up again. "I feel," said Dr. Evenou, "that I should kill her, or maybe that you should do it for me." By the following day, after six more glasses of port, the doctor's mind was made up. "We must kill her," he said. Without a word, Simone Deschamps rose from her chair, went to the local hardware store and bought a Boy Scout knife...
...Simone and the doctor languished in separate jails, old Madame Evenou mooned sadly over the fate of her lost daughter-in-law. "I tried," she said regretfully, "I tried to teach her to make appetizing little dishes-that's what attaches one to a man. But she just didn't care about cooking...
...house of delegates stood pat. Colorado physicians had asked the house to take a strong stand against physicians' working for salaries (paid by hospitals or group-care plans, including some sponsored by labor unions), and letting an administrator fix the patients' fees. With a growing number of doctors (40%, according to some estimates) now on full-or part-time salary, and with the mushrooming of medical-care plans that introduce a "third party" between the insured and his doctor, the irritation in many medical circles has become acute. Proponents of the Colorado plan declared that the corporate practice...