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...Smiles from children are the gas that keeps me going. Thus I wear funny ties, watches and socks, hide finger puppets in my desk drawers and try to have other diversions in my rooms so patients won't be too anxious...I have special interests in asthma, infectious diseases, preventive medicine and high-risk newborns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MINNESOTA: TWIN CITIES' FRIENDLY PLANS | 4/14/1997 | See Source »

...course, it's not like you get addicted at that rate, the "rate" of the social smoker. And if you wanted to, you could do just fine without the appendage. Like a sixth finger. It might be nice, but who needs...

Author: By Joshua A. Kaufman, | Title: An After Dessert Thing | 4/3/1997 | See Source »

...given to most people to know them. An exception to this rule is his chilling parable of Lazarus and Dives: The rich master, consigned to hell, lifts up his eyes to the beggar, who has been "carried by angels into Abraham's bosom," requesting that Lazarus dip a finger in some water to cool him. Impossible, says Abraham, for "between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOES HEAVEN EXIST? | 3/24/1997 | See Source »

...issue was a measure which prevents companies from arguing Medicaid patients are partially to blame for their illnesses, allows the state to bring a class action suit on behalf of the thousands of Medicaid patients suffering tobacco-related illnesses and permits the use of statistics which help finger tobacco as the cause of certain health problems. Tobacco companies say the law, the only one of its kind in the nation, violates the constitutional right of due process by giving the state rights an ordinary plaintiff would not have. Florida Governor Lawton Chiles said the Supreme Court's decision keeps intact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Smoke Out | 3/18/1997 | See Source »

...issue was a measure which prevents companies from arguing Medicaid patients are partially to blame for their illnesses, allows the state to bring a class action suit on behalf of the thousands of Medicaid patients suffering tobacco-related illnesses and permits the use of statistics which help finger tobacco as the cause of certain health problems. Tobacco companies say the law, the only one of its kind in the nation, violates the constitutional right of due process by giving the state rights an ordinary plaintiff would not have. Florida Governor Lawton Chiles said the Supreme Court's decision keeps intact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Smoke Out | 3/17/1997 | See Source »

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