Word: doctoring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Married. Robert Bolt, 42, British playwright (A Man for All Seasons) and Oscar-winning film scenarist (Doctor Zhivago); and Sarah Miles, 24, British actress (Blow-Up); he for the second time; in Woking, England...
...poverty level. Yet registered technicians with a B.S. degree take many courses taught in medical school, including pathology, immunology, comparative anatomy, pathogenic bacteriology and at least 25 to 35 college hours each of chemistry, zoology and bacteriology. Often a good technician knows more about specific diseases than the doctor for whom the tests are run. The smart technicians will go on to medical school rather than work for low pay and with low selfesteem...
...others who consort to slow the pace are the butler (Prentice Claflin). Doctor Finache (David Wilkinson), and Antoinette the cook (Honor Moore). Claflin ranges about the stage, making himself disagreeable to the other characters and to us. Feydeau devoted at least several tablespoons of wit to the part, and Claflin ought to do better. Wilkinson's failure is difficult to explain. Physically he is suited to the part of an aging man of science and affair who still has an eye for the chorines. Unfortunately he is always a step or so behind the action, looking on but stepping aside...
...unknown girls to pose; hundreds apply. Sometimes, though, there is a problem in making the copy that goes with them interesting enough. For instance, the latest Miss January, Playboy said, would love to be a nurse. She was "Albert Schweitzer's fairest disciple. She has read each of the doctor's books at least twice...
None of this means that analgesics in normal doses are dangerous; they are probably safer than most other non-prescription drugs. But there may be a limit. The expert consensus so far: when doctors prescribe ten or twelve five-grain aspirins a day for persistent painful disorders such as arthritis, they should watch their patients closely for signs of anemia or kidney damage. And headache victims who become aspirin or APC addicts should invest in a visit to the doctor. It may be cheaper in the long...