Word: neurosurgeon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Although Neurosurgeon Milton Avol usually lives in comfort in Beverly Hills, at the moment he can be found among disgruntled tenants in his own vermin- infested tenement in Los Angeles. Avol, 64, has been sentenced to live in his building for 30 days while monitored by an electronic device on his leg. The physician earned the nickname "Ratlord" after accumulating hundreds of health- and building-code violations on his four Los Angeles apartment houses since...
Faced with a flood of malpractice cases and notably generous juries, South Florida doctors are afflicted with the highest insurance costs in the country. A Dade County neurosurgeon, for example, might now have to shell out up to $220,000. "Our doctors are paying close to 40% of their gross income for insurance," says Dr. Richard Glatzer, president of the Dade County Medical Association. Governor Bob Martinez has pledged a special session of the state legislature to address the issue, but the prescription promises to be far more complicated than two aspirins...
...almost positive I want to be a neurosurgeon," Sample says, and he has the grades to get into a top-flight medical school. But he will be spending next year playing piano in a Gospel music studio in Detroit, not studying for the MCAT. And while most seniors leave behind a few close friends when they take on a career, Sample parts from "probably 40 or 50" friends just among the sophomores in Quincy House...
...problem graduation presents is putting all of his lives together. When asked how he can be a neurosurgeon and piano player and still maintain relationships with all his friends, Sample says, "That's a good question." He does not know...
...experts consulted, Catholic Neurosurgeon Robert J. White of Cleveland, finds the resulting document "ultraconservative." Patrick Steptoe, the British doctor who delivered Louise Brown, called the teaching "rather ridiculous," adding, "Our experiments may benefit a great deal of people in the future. I think it is perfectly moral to conduct them...