Word: doctoring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Discovery did not come until late 1974, fully eleven years after she married Dukakis. Her husband, just elected Governor, stumbled on her cache of pills. "I told him the truth: I was dependent," she recalls. Her family doctor tried to wean her from the diet pills, but three months later she was again covertly obtaining them from another physician. She continued the charade for eight more years until her husband noticed a stray bill from the doctor who was writing her prescription. Only then did Mrs. Dukakis reluctantly confront her dependency. "I had been taking diet pills for 26 years...
Then Oral began to hedge. During a TV appearance with a physician from his university's medical school, Roberts explained that a baby he had raised "years ago" appeared to have died during a service. "Only a doctor could say" whether the infant was "clinically dead," he said, but "the mother thought it was dead, I thought it was dead, the crowd thought it was dead...
...driving home to New York with four friends. He was asleep in the back seat of the rented car they were traveling in when it plowed into an 18-wheel truck. The driver of the automobile was killed, and North suffered knee and back injuries so severe that his doctor initially thought he might never walk again. After three months in the hospital, North returned to Philmont, missing the rest of his first year at the academy. His greatest fear was that his injuries would prevent him from winning a Marine commission. At home, he devised his own peculiar rehabilitation...
...against me and the majority couldn't have cared less. I wanted to be a lawyer and change the world. But when I saw the minority wasn't with you and the majority didn't care, it looked to me just like politics. I have decided to become a doctor and help people whether they want it or not. I don't want to have anything to do with politics...
Colorado's defense for its tough stance on AIDS takes this argument even further. Since last month physicians have been required by law to violate the doctor-patient relationship by reporting the names of those who test positive for the virus; the state then makes an active effort to inform sexual contacts. There is legal precedent for such measures. In a 1977 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a New York State law that called on pharmacists to turn in the names of customers with prescriptions for narcotics popular in the drug underworld...