Word: gynecologist
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...company turned a deaf ear to the protests of my medical team--my gynecologist, radiologist and surgeon. In the end I canceled my policy, preferring to be uninsured rather than pay for a worthless plan. Under Florida law, I was entitled to nothing more than an internal review by the insurer--I couldn't sue in state court. But if the McCain-Edwards-Kennedy Patient Protection bill becomes law in something close to its current form, it would let me sue. (The alternative Breaux-Frist-Jeffords bill would allow a lawsuit but put more obstacles in the way.) I might...
...There's a time and a place for everything. If I were a gynecologist, it would be inappropriate for my kids to be thrusting their hands up people's skirts because their...
...knows how to handle a speculum," says a patient admiringly of Dr. Sullivan Travis (Richard Gere), gynecologist to the pampered ladies of Dallas. He has a lot to handle in this derisive comedy. His wife (Farrah Fawcett) goes nuts and naked in a mall fountain; his clients, to a woman, are idle and self-absorbed. To Altman and screenwriter Anne Rapp, women's problems are the result of their having way too much time on their manicured hands. The film's blithe misogyny soon becomes wearying; it refuses to see women as more than the sum of their private parts...
Gere plays the title role: Dr. Sullivan Travis, gynecologist extraordinaire. Dr. T, as he is affectionately dubbed by the Dallas socialites who frequent his practice, is a man completely surrounded by women. He happily drifts along in his sea of XX chromosomes-females dominate Dr. T's life and he is completely comfortable with this fact. He is a pleasant and charismatic, a loving father, and a devoted husband. Dr. T is The Perfect Male, so much so that his wife, Kate (played by Farrah Fawcett, who fleshes out her loopy David Letterman appearance persona into a full-fledged character...
...almost sounds too good to be true: Waltzing in and snapping up birth control pills from your local pharmacy's shelves - without going through the rigmarole of the gynecologist's appointment, the prescription drop-off and pickup, the calls for refills. Happily for American women, the Food and Drug Administration is considering making that fantasy a reality by allowing birth control pills and a few other prescription drugs available over the counter...