Word: doctorings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quit in the early 1950s, waving them away when they showed her magazine articles with headlines like CANCER BY THE CARTON. She did make the concession of switching in 1955 from Chesterfield straights to L&M filters, which were advertised at the time as "just what the doctor ordered." But Cipollone kept on smoking even after developing a malignant tumor that forced surgeons to remove part of her right lung in 1981. She continued sneaking puffs after the entire lung was taken out in 1982, and finally quit about a year before her death from cancer...
...Anna Price of Washington, catastrophic health care means looking after her husband James, 78, a retired federal worker who has suffered for ten years from Alzheimer's disease. He can neither bathe nor dress himself. She frets about him constantly, and about how she will pay the doctor and the sitter who comes twice a week so she can go out to buy groceries. Even the $25 a month she pays for diaper-like underpants for her incontinent husband is a drain on ( their dwindling life savings, now less than...
...vacation that the Dukakis family embarked on when Michael was growing up lasted less than a day. Euterpe Dukakis had persuaded her husband, a doctor, to rent a house on the Massachusetts shore for a week. The day the family arrived, Panos Dukakis got word that one of his patients had gone into labor. The family immediately headed back to Boston. They never planned another long vacation...
...physician told her that her moodiness and paranoia were the results of the baby blues. Angela Thompson had hallucinations after the birth of her first child, jumped off a bridge and was taken to a mental hospital. Still, when she became pregnant with her second child, she notes, "my doctor said, 'Just take it easy. I see no reason why it should happen again...
...advice to his teammates, the future doctor has just...