Word: doctorings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...medical students are required to take now stress research rather than healing skills, to the detriment of future physicians, in the opinion of many in the informal group. Group members stress the difference between medical and scientific knowledge, saying that advanced science may not be relevant to what a doctor should know...
...Baker, one-time presidential dean of Radcliffe, to be chauffeur-companion for her husband. George Pierce Baker, creator of Harvard's legendary 47 Workshop where O'Neill, Behrman, Woffe. Barry and other dramatists students, and founder of the Yale Department of the Drama Mr. Baker (he loathed being called "doctor") had had a mild stroke and needed someone to putter in the garden with him and take him on occasional drives through the mountains from his country home in Silver Lake New Hampshire...
...entered the row of seats where Kreyne borg, Baker and I were seated, he gushed: "Doctor Baker, thrilled to see you again! May I introduce my secretary, Joseph Sweeney?" To which Mr. Baker replied: "And may I introduce my amanuensis, William Morris...
...addition, New York, California and, last week, Florida have imposed strict new requirements on hospitals that accept students from offshore schools. These actions have stirred an emotional debate over how many doctors the country needs and how they are to be trained. Defenders of the offshore schools argue that increasing the supply of physicians will lower medical costs and help deliver health care underserved: slums, rural areas and state psychiatric hospitals. Critics point out that there is already a doctor glut in many parts of the country and that too often the offshore schools provide second-rate training for third...
...solution is scalp-reduction surgery, which can shrink a bald spot the size of a palm to the width of a finger. The procedure, developed about eight years ago in Canada, is performed in a doctor's office under local anesthesia. The plastic surgeon or dermatologist makes an incision in the crown and then tugs firmly on the scalp, pulling hair-covered areas from the sides of the head toward the bare area on top (see diagram). A section of the bald scalp is cut away, and the incision is closed with stitches. The 60-min. procedure...