Word: doctorings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quit playing baseball when I was 17," Blair recalls. "We got to the provincial championships in hockey, got beat in the finals and I got hurt the next winter. I went to the doctor and he pretty well said you have to make a decision--your back won't really handle it. And I chose hockey...
...most coronary-bypass surgery, veins taken from a patient's leg must be deftly sewn to one or more of the heart's arteries, some no thicker than a straw. Last week a nine-member court-martial jury found that Commander Donal Billig, a Navy doctor and former chief of cardiothoracic surgery at Bethesda Naval Hospital, had "wrongfully" performed that delicate operation. The result: two retired servicemen, Lieut. Colonel John Kas and Petty Officer Joe Estep, died in 1984 after Billig operated on them...
...most interesting thing about the study is that it is double-blind," another participant recalls. "One doctor knows what drug we've been given, but we don't know, and neither do the people monitoring us--so they don't know what to expect and can't influence our behavior...
...come forward. According to Billig, his ex-wife was demanding $5,000 in exchange for silence about the firing. Hodges began an investigation. When he inquired about Billig's competence, a junior cardiologist volunteered that the chief surgeon had "trouble clamping small vessels." Hodges then asked if the young doctor would let Billig operate on his mother or father. The answer...
...Wade Morrison worked as a pharmacist at a drugstore in Rural Retreat, Va. He fell in love with the daughter of the store's proprietor, Charles Pepper, who was a physician. When the doctor discovered the romance, he put a halt to it. Morrison then fled to Waco, Texas, where he opened his own drugstore. It was there that Charles Alderton, who worked for Morrison, invented a tasty soft drink made from 23 flavors. Morrison, apparently still hoping to curry favor with his beloved's father, named the new pop Dr Pepper. It become one of the most popular thirst...