Word: doctorings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Selidovkin began by examining the patients' blood samples to determine how many of their infection-fighting white blood cells had been destroyed and the extent of genetic damage. By comparing the results to those from previous nuclear accident victims, the Soviet doctor determined that four of the patients had been exposed to about 600 rads, a degree of radiation absorption equivalent to 4,000 chest X rays. Technicians sprayed six of the patients with cold water and scrubbed them with soap to remove any cesium from their skin. In an attempt to cleanse their bodies of any cesium they might...
With those kind of credentials, the persistent leg injury has proved doubly hard to take. "It's not only physical. It gets you down when the doctor says `one week' five weeks in a row," Pepper says...
...would like to get involved in sports medicine," she says. "I actually don't want to be a doctor, but maybe a physical therapist or a sports trainer...
...members. In addition to publishing regularly, the Hastings ethicists develop model legislation, draw up guidelines for public policy, consult in such tortured cases as Karen Anne Quinlan's fate and assist universities in setting up ethics departments. "People used to think of medical ethics as between doctor and patient at the bedside," says Callahan. "We consider wider public policy, how Government spends its money, issues that affect millions of lives, as well as the exotic issues where the number is small...
...theory that things could hardly get worse. He bought $30,000 worth of shares in high-technology firms like IBM, Microsoft and Apple, with no intention of selling at all. Said Brown: "Now I'm just going to sit on them and watch and wait." By Friday the doctor's first foray into stocks was already beginning to look prescient: on paper at least, he had made a profit...