Word: doctorate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bullets hit Somoza in the right forearm and broke it. Two others lodged painfully in his right shoulder and right thigh. The fourth, Dr. Heaton found, was the most serious: it had entered through the upper right thigh and stopped at the base of the spine. The doctor's recommendation was an operation at the Canal Zone's famed Gorgas Hospital. At 3 a.m. a blue ambulance crept through the lonely, moonlit streets of Managua. Only four hours after Heaton's Constellation reached Managua, it was headed toward Panama with Somoza, his wife, and the task force...
...regain his strength. Last week Drew's physician bluntly warned him that he could no longer carry his old responsibilities without serious danger to his health. Drew drafted a letter of resignation, delayed signing it until he had had another talk with his wife and his doctor, then summoned his aides, asked them to announce that he was quitting as party leader...
...procedure the danger increases with old-fashioned-X-ray machines and inexperienced operators. The sensible conclusion is that patients would be foolish to forgo needed X rays, especially when given by a doctor or dentist who knows his business and his dosages, and would be still more foolish to expose themselves to needless X rays...
...some relatives of the doctor's late patients complained that they left him too much money when they died. The police received notes, sometimes anonymous, even suggesting-without any facts-that he had hastened their deaths. They ordered an inquest on one of the patients (verdict: suicide) and, as the buzz of gossip rose, called in Scotland Yard...
Whispers. Other papers were bolder. One dovetailed a story about "startling" but undisclosed evidence in the case of "25 deaths" at Eastbourne with another dispatch covering the doctor's testimony at the inquest where one of his patients was found to have taken an overdose of sleeping tablets. The boldest paper managed to tell much of the story-and even run a picture of the doctor-by a slick trick: it got the doctor's lawyers to approve a sympathetic story that named him as the victim of a malign whispering campaign-and managed to print many...