Word: doctoring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...business in San Diego, raised some $15 million (mostly from corporate sponsors, including Ford, Merrill Lynch and Budweiser). Two years ago, he assembled his crew and began sailing in near secrecy off Hawaii, where wind and water duplicate the Western Australia conditions. Conner had also noted that the Fremantle Doctor, a wind so named because it relieves the almost 100 degrees temperatures onshore, increases in strength as the antipodal summer progresses. So he got his marine architects to deliver a boat that would sail best in a straight line and go fastest in the high winds and rough seas expected...
...West Los Angeles to have her first baby, in 1982, Lillian Garland figured she would simply take a short, unpaid disability leave and return to her job, a right guaranteed by state law. But there were complications. Garland's baby girl was delivered by Cesarean section, and her doctor prescribed a three-month leave. When she returned to Cal Fed, Garland found that her position had been filled. "I didn't know what to do," she says. Unemployed and unable to pay her $550-a-month rent, Garland was eventually evicted from her apartment. She and her daughter moved into...
Galaburda, who heads the Dyslexia Research Laboratory at Harvard-affiliated Beth-Israel Hospital, and another doctor, Thomas Kemper, were the first to provide evidence for the neurological origin of the disorder. In 1979 they first discovered abnormalities in the brains of dyslexics...
Such clinics carry an image of special competence, which is important now that consumers have become more discriminating and take-charge in their attitude toward medicine. Says Jan Michael Lok, publisher of Healthcare Marketing Report: "Some years ago, patients went to the hospital the doctor said they should go to. But now consumers know they have choices...
...Manila. First I decided I was not going to get a pediatrician from the provinces. I told Ninoy, "Look, this is our first child, and let's have the best pediatrician for her." So, naturally, once a month, I had to bring her to the doctor in Manila...