Word: internist
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Simpson's highflying defense lawyer Robert Shapiro called in a team to help him through the crisis: forensic experts to go over every piece of evidence, an internist to monitor O.J.'s health and a psychiatrist to handle his deepening depression. On Friday morning Garcetti called Shapiro with word that the scientific tests were back, and that charges had been filed of first- degree murder involving special circumstances -- meaning that Simpson could get the death penalty if convicted...
...many African immigrants, unlike Oluloro, still cling to the tradition of their homeland. In Seattle internist Carol Horowitz has treated more than 20 Somali refugees, virtually all with the most severe form of mutilation. Yet, she notes, "some of them say they understand that circumcision isn't done here, and they feel sad about it." Adds Horowitz: "If your only message is that this is barbaric, women who have been circumcised will be less likely to seek the medical care they need. They're not doing it to their children to hurt them. They're doing it because they love...
...Louis Zetzel '29, a private practice internist and former long-time faculty member of Harvard Medical School, died last Monday, Sept. 13, in the Newton and Wellesley Alzheimer Center from Parkinson's disease...
...meeting rooms. Robert Valdez, a UCLA public-health professor who eventually served as co-chairman of the benefits working group, arrived in Washington late one night only to be told he was presenting an overview at the first meeting the next morning. "Presenting?" asked Valdez. "Presenting what?" Recalls Harvard internist Arnold Epstein: "The whole thing was like a four- alarm fire...
...patient needs a CAT scan, I'm not going to not order one," says Dr. Kenneth Gold, an internist at UHS. "You do what's medically necessary...if for no other reason than 'Lawyer's going to sue me the next...