Word: doctorings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same room with an AIDS victim, sharing a meal or a bathroom, being sneezed on, even hugging and social kissing. Members of families who have lived in intimate non-sexual contact with AIDS victims for many years have yet to produce a single documented case of the disease. No doctor, nurse, dental technician or other "health-care provider," to use the medical jargon, in the U.S. is known to have picked up AIDS from a patient. (A nurse in Britain who contracted the disease was accidentally pricked with a contaminated needle.) In fact, there are only four ways in which...
...year-old landscaper, noticed brown trout thrashing about in a muddy stream bed nearby, trying to clear silt from the bottom so they could lay eggs on clean gravel. Deciding to help the fish reproduce and make some money for himself, he became America's first commercial stream doctor...
...stream doctor's task involves more than dredging muck. Surgery for a silty waterway can mean adding rocks, moving boulders or placing trees in strategic places to shelter trout. It often requires rechanneling a creek to increase its flow so that water will once again ripple over rocks to provide enough oxygen. At Boise's River Run development, McIntyre dug pools and meandering bends into an existing brook and added rocks and Douglas fir logs to the riverbank. Now trout spawn in streams that flow between condominium town houses and $100,000 homesites...
...juice," a fruit juice and amphetamine concoction, in the locker of Willie Mays when both played for the New York Mets in the early '70s. "The Willie Mays?" asked Defense Attorney Adam Renfroe. "Willie Mays -- the great one," replied Milner. An angry Mays denied the charge, and his doctor told CBS that the red liquid was cough medicine. "It's a shame that a man can be crucified...
...testing only the surface of the basic science learned in premedical courses. Critics also point to what they believe is its disproportionate influence. Furthermore, many feel that the MCAT simply cannot measure or predict a student's clinical capabilities--in other words, it says nothing about how good a doctor a student might become...