Word: doctorings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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FRANKENSTEIN -- PLAYING WITH FIRE. The doctor tracks his doomed creation to the North Pole in a visually arresting, high-tech version, told in flashback, at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis...
Bianca's classmates say they want to be engineers, teachers, scientists, nurses, football players, policemen. A fourth-grader named Erica writes in her journal, "When I grow up I will get married and be an engineer because I have to study some science and math and be a doctor or a teacher and for my children to have school and clothes and food and strong and healthy...
...Democratic Party -- could the party's two finalists for President be the son of poor Greek immigrants and the son of a poor black family in South Carolina. Jackson's aide, Bob Borosage, said wryly when he heard this: "Yeah, only in America can the son of a Brookline doctor from Harvard's medical school, who left his family million-dollar trusts, end up with the illegitimate son of a black woman in South Carolina." Dukakis grew up with the children of middle-class professionals who knew they must keep striving, but who were certain they could affect the world...
...also does not hurt that the diminutive ( 5 ft. 2 in.) Lipsig can handle jurors' emotions with the finesse of a symphony conductor. The faces in the jury box registered grief and shock during Lipsig's opening statement in Chernow's suit as the maestro described the doctor's tragic demise: picked up by a front fender, smashed into a "shatterproof" windshield, to "land with a thud on the roadway" with "52 bone fractures." After just one day of trial, the city threw in the towel and settled for an undisclosed amount. "Trying a case against him was like playing...
...Lipsig won another case that made it easier for patients in New York to sue a doctor or hospital for leaving a foreign object in their bodies after surgery. Instead of having only three years after surgery to bring such a suit, Lipsig's victory allowed patients three years from the time they could reasonably have discovered the problem. And just last week the state's top court affirmed a $1.25 million lower-court judgment that Lipsig had won for a high school football player who was injured on the field. Lipsig had persuaded the jury that in view...