Word: doctoring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Houphouët is just as pragmatic in his politics. A bush doctor for 15 years and later the founding father of the country's 25-year-old Democratic Party, he has a keen understanding of his people. He shuns flowery forensics and reads his speeches in a soft, professorial voice. Like any other wily African tribal chief, he also does nothing to discourage stories of his black-magic prowess, or rumors that he consults the sacred crocodiles in his palace pond...
...edge of town. His wife earns $3,800 a year teaching remedial reading; as the only whites in the local schools, his children are learning things unheard of in Newton. For the first time, Kruger feels really needed: many of his patients have never before seen a doctor. He has already achieved his goal: "Service as a way of life...
...WHEN AM I going to get out of here?" Possible answers: "Ask your doctor." "Do you want to get out of here?" "When do you think you're going to get out?" "You'll get out of here just as soon as you show them that you aren't going to go around hitting people." "You get off the bottle." "You can get out of here any time you want to, but you have to have a job first...
Honesty is basic, but you can only be honest about what you know about yourself. You cannot equate honesty with brutality. In Hannah Green's book, the doctor was not brutal with the child. She did finally say, "I never promised you a rose garden." But it was only whenthe patient was ready to hear it, and had discovered that the world wasn't going to be a rose garden...
Freshman year I was stuck with two roommates, one very much a physicist from the day he was born and the other one from Fieldstone in New York. He wanted to be a good doctor, his father was a doctor. He was a Jewish kid, very much concerned with getting the grades and getting into medical school. He was a nice guy just caught up too much in trying to be a professional and successful. He made a lot of sacrifices toward that end. Anyway, given these two roommates, it all didn't quite fit the Harvard image...