Word: endocrinologist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...intimacy because of overcrowded housing, overwhelmed by long entrenched sexual myths, and ruled by a government that seems to deny the very idea of a sex life, most Soviet citizens, says Stern, lead lives of "sexual misery." For more than 30 years this Soviet Kinsey was a practicing endocrinologist at a clinic in Vinnitsa, near the Ukrainian city of Kiev, where his patients called upon him for advice on sexual problems...
Peterson, a 48-year-old endocrinologist and native of Utah, said yesterday that after serving as a Harvard administrator for 11 years, first as dean of admissions and then in his current position, he decided it was time to "re-earn my medical stripes" and "return to the western Great Basin...
...rooms. It is far more than that. More than a decade in the planning, the wing caps a long campaign by Beth Israel's innovative director, Dr. Mitchell Rabkin, 45, to ensure patients a "full bill of rights," which he feels is long overdue. As the Harvard-educated endocrinologist puts it: "We have reached the point where doctors and hospitals can really tyrannize patients...
...extreme goals for the size they consider ideal. They are obsessed with nutrition and food. They love to prepare meals, watch others eat, and work on nutrition projects for school. They go on eating binges occasionally, but will secretly induce vomiting afterwards. "One sub-group," Dr. George Tully, an endocrinologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, says, "will eat next to nothing for a long time, then gorge a jar of mayonnaise or pickle juice--very unappetizing-sounding orgies--and induce vomiting...
...Mass General Hospital, insulin injections are used to stimulate an appetite in anorexics. Dr. George Tully, an endocrinologist explains, "the insulin induces hypoglycemia. This makes the patient feel hungry and gives them a sweaty, mild headache which only eating can relieve." Ideally, a normal appetite will develop in the patient and she will not just eat to avoid the insulin's side effects. The insulin treatment is accompanied by psychiatric care...