Word: livered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fetching metaphors for him because he does not know the mathematics. Elsewhere, he bucks psychiatric doctrine and formulates a hands-off policy toward the unconscious: "It cannot be a bad thing to own one, but I would no more think of meddling with it than trying to exorcise my liver, an equally mysterious apparatus. Until we know a lot more, it would be wise, as we have learned from other fields in medicine, to let them be." Doubt, as the doctor gracefully demonstrates, is another way of knowing...
...American deaths. Cancer, at No. 2, is on the upswing as a cause of death. Fatalities from cerebrovascular disease, accidents, motor-vehicle collisions and chronic pulmonary disease are falling. Suicide leaped up the list from No. 10 to No. 8, principally because two ailments once ahead of it, chronic liver disease and atherosclerosis, continued to drop...
...Dudley Moore's case, biology would seem to be approaching destiny. Staggering on the heels of Peter O'Toole in My Favorite Year and The Stuntman, he plays the infinitely lovable, brutally sarcastic megalomaniac whose heart of gold is barely outlasting his liver. It's the Irish role, and we've seen it oh so many times before. Here, he portrays Jason Carmichael, "a witty, talented, acerbic, sarcastic, but always charming" and highly successful New York playwright. The day of his wedding to a glamorous socialite (Janet Eilber) also marks the beginning of a literary collaboration cum romantic entanglement with...
...Thomas Strazl, who heads the liver transplant program at the University of Pittsburgh's Health Center, also believes the operation has moved beyond the experimental stages. Strazl has said the first year success rate for children stands at roughly 70 percent and that he thinks the operation "will be a widely used procedure and become competitive in numbers with kidneys in the next three or four years...
...meantime, "The Jorie Hill Von Ohlen Liver Transplant Fund" at a Geneva, Ill, bank stands at $50,000. "The Brett Wethington Fund" has collected $40,000, from town rummage and bake sales, hair-cut-a-thons, pet shows, pancake breakfasts and anonymous donors. Fortunately, according to their mothers, Brett's disease has not yet progressed too far, and Jorie remains in stable condition. She is among the top five on a waiting list at the University of Pittsburgh. Unlike the Minnesota hospital, Pittsburgh's Health Center has told Hill that, when the time comes, only medical and not financial considerations...