Word: doctorings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...raincoat, a gold borsalino hat and black stockings. At 15 she is a live-in helper for a Greenwich Village dermatologist and his family. The Bergsons appreciate culture with a capital K, and the baby-sitter, already an amateur anthropologist, enjoys watching their games. Available evidence suggests that the doctor was a pretentious cad and an ideal target for Simon's elegantly decapitating style. "He had, or had invented," she writes, "an aristocratic European background, replete with 'von' relatives, a faint 'Continental' accent that slipped when he was angry, forgetting that he was connected to a 'Statspalais' (as he called...
Nguyen spends most of his Saturdays at the doctor's office. Conducting research, that...
Nguyen is on the Strand Fellowship, a program set up by a University School alum for students to pursue scientific research. Nguyen has chosen to work with a doctor investigating the neurochemistry of anti-psychotic drugs, concentrating particularly on a scary-sounding narcotic called tritiated spiroperidol...
Lawyers--who are the doctors' competitors, mind you, in this insurance scenario--argue that litigation pressure keeps doctors "on their toes." If one were anachronistically fascinated by the myth of laissez-faire capitalism, one might discern some sense in the lawyers' "fairness" argument. But this forgets that the AMA has openly advocated investigations into the capabilities of its members; it has never argued that medical malpractice suits per se are unjustified. The AMA points out that the constant threat of inquisition restricts the accessibility of quality medical care, as doctors flock to states with more relaxed laws, and promotes...
...suddenly realized what had been missing from my life these past few months. Ever since I had turned 18, I had been moody and depressed. My thoughts turned back to my talk with my guidance counselor. "What do you want to be?" she had asked. "A doctor? A stockbroker?" But I couldn't put my finger on it. "I don't know," I had said. "I think I'd like to work mostly at night, something that involves a great deal or irresponsibility...