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...then there's Jerry Dodgen, 72, who runs an Atlanta rock-climbing school. On a climb two years ago, he slipped and tore his Achilles tendon. "The doctor said I couldn't climb again for 18 months, but about 10 months out I realized something: he wasn't so concerned that I climb again; he just didn't want me to fall again," Dodgen says, chuckling. He headed back out pronto, climbing in a cast and using crutches to traverse trails...
...Thursday, the prosecution called Cynthia G. McGinn, the emergency room doctor who diagnosed Trombly as having a displaced jaw fracture the morning after the alleged incident. McGinn, who is also an instructor at Harvard Medical School, said the injury was consistent with a substantial impact, comparing it to the damage done by a car accident...
...DOCTOR AS GAMBLER...
...bachelor party was so raucous that it helped persuade him to stop drinking 22 years ago. Quite sensibly, he wouldn't provide details of the night's festivities, but--eventually, ineluctably--someone will. Still, Dean practically squeaks today: he doesn't drink alcohol or even caffeine. The good doctor also doesn't smoke...
Being a burnout got old after a year, and Dean decided his life could take one of three paths. He could teach, as he had done for three months at a junior high school in inner-city New Haven, Conn., near Yale. He could be a doctor. Or he could take "the path of least resistance" and go to Wall Street. He quickly dismissed teaching as "too hard ... There were a lot of kids with enormous numbers of needs, and I couldn't meet them all." Medical school would require enrolling in difficult premed classes, since he had done little...