Word: doctoring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ALEXANDRIA, MINN., Theater L'Homme Dieu. Moliere's classic spoof of the medical profession, The Imaginary Invalid, tells of a hypochondriac hypocrite who discovers that the only way to save on bills is to become a doctor himself...
...doctor-patient relationship is an intimate one. Most states consider such relationships privileged, and therefore what a man tells his doctor about his ill ness is as inadmissible in court as what he tells his lawyer or spouse. But what of the state-employed psychiatrist who treats an accused criminal? If the crim inal enters a defense of insanity, can the psychiatrist be a witness against him? Now the Minnesota Supreme Court has refused to create an exception for state psychiatrists. A doctor-patient relationship is a doctor-patient relationship, said the court, no matter who employs the doctor...
...theme is adultery, and the assembled husbands of Trevise provide a hilarious survey of some of the resultant absurdities. One, Alberto Lionello, comes sniveling to a doctor friend, bemoaning a sudden attack of impotence. The doctor (Gigi Ballista) trustingly leaves Lionello to keep his wife company while he goes off for fun and games, returns a few hours later to find to his horror that the patient is miraculously cured...
...book is set in a village hovering on the brink of civilization, and the topsy-turvy quality of its life is caught so expertly by the author that terrifying and absurd events come to seem fully logical. Studding the story are keenly observed individual portraits, among them a witch doctor frantically clinging to a waning authority and a self-important chieftain who | wears European khakis under his tribal robes...
After Lady Macbeth's mind has cracked under the strain, Macbeth nearly throttles the Doctor for his inability to cure her. Gradually he becomes more and more disillusioned. When the last charm proves hollow and Macduff relates his Caesarean birth, Colicos does not yell his reply ("Accursed be that tongue that tells me so."), as usually done, but rather delivers it very effectively at a soft level...