Word: patricks
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...clubby and litigious world of medicine, doctors have been reluctant to finger incompetent colleagues. A high-court decision last week is likely to make them even shyer. The case, closely tracked by the medical community, involved Surgeon Timothy Patrick. In 1981 a peer-review panel was considering ending his privileges at the only hospital in Astoria, Ore., on the grounds of substandard patient care. Patrick resigned and sued the doctors in a rival practice, who had initiated and participated in the proceedings against him. His claim: conspiracy to eliminate a competitor. Though the law partly protects physicians who serve...
...intimacy of Michael and Kitty, unlike that of many political unions, is never questioned. Seeing them together suggests that the lyrics of sappy love songs can be true -- or perhaps that he is the one candidate this year who could be accused of uxoriousness. Marching in a chilly St. Patrick's Day parade in Chicago last month, Kitty asked him to push up her collar against % the wind. Dukakis, who forgot that he was wearing a microphone that allowed the press to hear his comments, whispered to her as he adjusted her coat, "Tonight if I'm asleep, wake...
...essentially different from old-racism, it must be met and fought head-on, and the pressure must be kept on college administrations across the country. What is especially important about the Yale campus-racism gathering is the upfront role of middle-class Asian-American students in putting it together. Patrick Cheng and Lucy Tsang...
Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and President Ronald Reagan sang and swapped jokes about their Irish heritage on St. Patrick's Day three years ago at the "Shamrock Summit" in Quebec City, but their friendship has soured since then. Last week it bottomed out over the unresolved problem of acid rain. Much of the pollution that falls on Canada is caused by the burning of coal and other fuels by U.S. industries. In a speech in New York City, Mulroney angrily declared, "It's ruining our lakes, it's killing our rivers, it's ruining our forests...
...Patrick said the process of determining theeligibility of 4000 employees takes time. "We'vedone nothing except act to expedite the process,"the lawyer said