Word: doctorings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Americans "can do more for [their] own health than any hospital, doctor, medicine or drug," he said, calling for anti-smoking campaigns and diet consciousness. For example, Califano said, in 1984, 43 percent of Chrysler Corporation's health care payments went to only 3.4 percent of its retirees to cure mostly life-style related illnesses, such as drug use or diet.Califano recommended providing incentives forpeople to pursue healthy life-styles such ascharging higher medical and insurance fees tothose who smoke or who don't watch their weight orcholesterol level...
...same time, Weinberger ordered that the military begin an educational program to encourage personnel not to smoke. A visit to the doctor or dentist will now include a short sermon on the ills of smoking...
...England's angry young men. He marries his younger brother's sweetheart, Agnes Salter, writes screenplays, divorces, weds an adoring younger woman and becomes a cranky old reactionary. For his part, Fred woos and loses Agnes but decides to follow her father's practice as the village doctor. His new mentor espouses a mission that frees Fred from messianic impulses: "I don't deal in right and wrong. I deal in collywobbles and housemaid's knee...
...bold new ruling by the American Medical Association's Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs ought to make it easier for doctors to go along with a family's request to end treatment. After two years of deliberation, the seven-member panel affirmed that patients' wishes, as best as can be determined, should be respected and their "dignity" maintained. It is "not unethical," said the council, for doctors to discontinue all life support for patients who are in irreversible comas, "even if death is not imminent." In its most controversial provision, the council included food and water on the list...
...later years Richardson always had a silver tankard of champagne waiting for those who visited him backstage. Once, when Guinness came by, he rose and made a military-style toast: "To Jesus Christ. What a splendid chap!" Another time, when they were both starring in Doctor Zhivago, Sir Alec walked into Richardson's hotel suite in Madrid. "Who can one hit," said Richardson, "if not one's friends?" -- and punched him in the jaw. By the time Guinness raised himself from the floor to ask what was going on, Richardson was sound asleep in an armchair...