Word: doctorings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...skeptical Federal District Judge Richard Owen traveled from New York to Tucson last week to weigh Bonanno's claim in an improvised courtroom next to St. Mary's Hospital and Health Center. The old mobster stated that his doctor "recommended me not to testify." He complained of chest pains and refused to answer questions. Government medical experts said that Bonanno was healthier than he claimed. The judge agreed, calling Bonanno's performance "an arrogant flouting of the duty to give testimony." Owen found Bonanno in contempt of court and ordered him to prison until he changed his mind, or until...
...plan could not be applied to major leaguers because of a contractual agreement between the club owners and players' union that provides only for voluntary testing. Says Don Fehr, head of the players' union: "Chemical abuse is a medical problem and should be treated like one, presupposing the doctor-client relationship and its confidentiality...
Some suggest that for blacks in the ghetto, crime and a life of violence are an occupational choice, like becoming a doctor or lawyer is for a child from the suburbs. In the ghetto, suggests Benjamin Carmichael in an article in Black Perspectives on Crime and the Criminal Justice System, the successful criminal cuts a glamorous figure and projects an enviable life-style, becoming a role model for youngsters whose only glimpse of wealth is on Dynasty or Dallas. Says Joseph Lowery, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (S.C.L.C.): "You cannot ignore the fact that a poor black...
...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...
Garland Bunting talks too loud, wears store-bought glasses, doctors himself with coonhound medicine, and has such a sizable paunch that when he told a clothing salesman, "I'd like to see something to fit this," the man replied, "I would too." For more than two decades Bunting has also been a North Carolina legend, the pre-eminent undercover county revenue agent in a state where the making of illegal alcohol is considered next door to a constitutional right. Bunting has been so good at his work that many local folk assume he is "a conjure doctor," a devil...