Word: doctorings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hungarian is knocked unconscious in the Stalinist era and miraculously comes to his senses in a hospital in 1984. To his amazement, he learns that physicians are no longer addressed as "comrade doctor" but as just plain "doctor." Moreover, János Kádár, once out of favor with the Kremlin, now leads the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party. The man's wife appears in the company of a punk rocker in black leather; she has remarried, she says, and has opened a fashion boutique. "Where am I?" moans the Hungarian. "Can this be socialism...
Such brain injuries are not uncommon among boxers. An American doctor, Harrison Martland, observed as early as 1928 that boxers who took considerable punishment could become punch-drunk. Other physicians have documented the damage to fighters' brains. British Neurologist MacDonald Critchley reported in 1957 that a boxer's chances of suffering brain damage increased in direct proportion to the number of bouts fought. Another British researcher, Dr. J.A.N. Corsellis, reported in 1973 that he had examined the brains of 15 former fighters who had died of natural causes. Corsellis observed a striking pattern of cerebral changes rarely found...
Eastman's position draws upon a firmly based heritage. The protection of the clergy-penitent relationship rests on "one of the more basic privileges," says Harvard Law Professor Arthur Miller-as strong or stronger than the similar claims to confidentiality between lawyer and client or doctor and patient. The Fourth Lateran Council of A.D. 1215 formalized the already long-established clerical discipline of absolute secrecy for discussions during sacramental confessions...
...Harvard but at other places as well," said Henry Rosovsky, former dean of the Faculty. "When you have a pain in the foot, and then a few months later you have a pain in your knee, eventually you come to the conclusion that you have to go to the doctor...
There are also fleeting suggestions, beneath all his mocking worldliness, of a slightly unquiet spirit. He is a demon for order and travels to the doctor's office with a shoehorn so he can replace his footwear easily after an exam. "He thinks he's ugly," says Ines, who will sometimes sneak up and start tickling him to make him smile. He frets over whether to have a nose job. His hands always seem to be in motion, partly because he is always moving his sleeves to hide them. That restlessness also colors his imagination, which...