Word: doctorings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Consent of the patient remains a hotly debated issue. "Sure the patient may give consent, but there are many tricks involved. The doctor is usually trusted with knowing what is good for the patient, and a patient usually follows his recommendation without being fully aware of the consequences of treatment, such as loss of memory," says Judi Chamberlin, spokesman for the Mental Patients Liberation Front...
...initiation was wrong in spirit and also dangerous. Ippolito and other members' comments that the incident was not serious were irresponsible. One fourth of the initiates visited UHS last Tuesday. Five were forced to stay overnight for observation because, said one doctor, they had drunk enough that they could have died. The judgement of staging such an initiation in the first place is questionable, but the officers were certainly negligent in not sensing the seriousness of the situation and stopping it sooner...
...would no more think of meddling with it than trying to exorcise my liver, an equally mysterious apparatus. Until we know a lot more, it would be wise, as we have learned from other fields in medicine, to let them be." Doubt, as the doctor gracefully demonstrates, is another way of knowing...
...ensemble-named for its performing space, a chastely remodeled former grand-opera house-is mounting productions ranging from Hamlet to Godspell, from a transvestite Arsenic and Old Lace to a studiously Edwardian The Doctor's Dilemma. Phillips will direct four of the nine main stage productions and co-direct three more. (The schedule also includes five children's shows, adapted from stories by Paul Gallico.) The actors, many of them veterans of the Phillips era at Stratford, work in true repertory: a weekend visitor can see four plays in two days; at its peak during December, the Grand...
...conventional and ingratiating, all have a high gloss, especially in design. Phillips and Phillip Silver have created a standing set: a streamlined, frame-and-window contraption that can look like a temple, a skyscraper or the wall of a conservatory. It neatly frames an all but impeccable The Doctor's Dilemma, Shaw's affectionate satire of medical theories, artistic pretensions and the absurd complexities brought on by love. The plot, a wittily constructed but logically dubious foofaraw, about a physician who must decide whether to save the life of a mediocre yet decent colleague or that...