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...perhaps the premise of the liberal arts education can be taken too far, rounded to the point where it might be said to have passed beyond the point of voluptuous to a plus-sized state of outright voluminous. Sure, it’s a Good Thing when your family doctor is well-versed in the ins and outs of both Kant and cardiac arrest, and of course long division (for the sake of argument) should not be beyond the reach of even the most diehard lit-critter. An entire semester’s-worth of courses aligned explicitly as outside...
...news Frey received from the doctor yesterday afternoon certainly won’t produce that same sickening feeling. Seven months after the initial injury and six weeks after undergoing surgery to have corrective pins removed Frey’s recovery is on track and on schedule...
...doctor] said that everything’s healing well,” Frey said, “and that I can start doing things that I wasn’t able to do such as stair stepping and mild running...
Jannine and John Cody were packing to move from Sheppard Air Force Base in Wichita Falls, Texas, to Brooks Air Force Base in San Antonio in 1985 when a military doctor gave them some devastating news. Their 6-week-old daughter Elizabeth was missing part of her 18th chromosome. To explain what that meant, the doctor showed Jannine a textbook with a horrifying picture and caption that she still keeps in her files. It read, "They are probably the most seriously afflicted among carriers of chromosome abnormalities. They maintain the froglike position observed in infants and are reduced...
Particular Clark Kents, of course, turn into particular superheroes because of varying talents and inclinations. Leslie Gordon and Scott Berns, for example, were both multidegree doctors--she has an M.D. and a Ph.D., he has an M.D. and a master's in public health--when a doctor friend diagnosed progeria in their 21-month-old son Sam, now 7 (the rare disease causes accelerated aging and often leads to death by early adolescence). The next day, Gordon took a leave from her training in pediatric ophthalmology. Within nine months, she created the Progeria Research Foundation to bring attention...