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When Dana Ullman's younger sister developed a nagging pain in her abdomen, their father, a pediatrician, couldn't find the cause or a cure. Neither could the five specialists who were called in on her case. Then Dana, a practitioner and leading proselytizer of homeopathy, stepped in. He prescribed a dose of calcium carbonate; two weeks later, his sister's pain had disappeared. Now whenever illness strikes, the Ullman family turns first to Dana's type of medicine...
...both wanted to become doctors. Tadasse dreamed of returning to Ethiopia to provide medical assistance, and Ho hoped to become a pediatrician helping the Vietnamese American community...
...Soon the eye began to droop and the pupil became fixed. The baby's grandfather, Isaac Manly, a Harvard- trained surgeon, was worried about the child's symptoms but didn't want to frighten her parents. He gently suggested a trip to the ophthalmologist, which led to the pediatrician, then the neurologist. The first time the parents got a hint of what might be wrong was when they took Elizabeth in for tests and glimpsed the diagnosis on the hospital admissions form: "brain tumor...
Although no one was willing to say which character they would most like to be, most seemed to respect Dr. Ross, E.R.'s pediatrician. The womanizing, misogynistic doctor, who can't have a solid relationship, according to Tattenbaum, gains his respect from the sensitivity he displays towards his patients and his strong character. Resident Susan Lewis, one of the show's two major women doctors (as opposed to nurses), also seems to have a large following because she's not perfect. Joanie M. Daya '98 likes her because she is not yet confident in herself. "She reminds me of myself...
...pediatrician, I can only recommend prevention," said David Link, chief of pediatrics at Cambridge Hospital. "Contraception represents the best current approach to stopping teenage pregnancy...