Word: pediatrician
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...gobble down take- out Chuckee Cheese pizza, is deliriously happy to be the center of attention. But his sister Mercedes, 18, has become worried. She has noticed an insect bite on the boy's lower arm, accompanied by a red streak running upward and inward toward his heart. The pediatrician is called, and the verdict is wrenching: the bite appears to be infected; John Paul must go straight to the emergency room...
...there is no doubt they are currently gaining favor. In the past two years, at least half the new positions in the Politburo and Castro's Cabinet have been filled with young comers. The economic czar is another bike-riding yummie, Carlos Lage Davila, a 41-year-old pediatrician who is credited with designing Cuba's aggressive new policy to attract foreign investment. He may be the most important man in Cuba after Fidel and his brother Raul. A 28-year-old mechanical engineer, Felipe Perez Roque, serves as Castro's informal chief of staff...
...Being a medical doctor. People say, "Well you're just a pathologist." My specialty is death. And if not a pathologist, who? Would you have a pediatrician do it? Or let's get more absurd. What if I was a urologist? Could I help only men end their lives...
...Adults have one foot in the Victorian era while kids are in the middle of a worldwide pandemic," complains pediatrician Karen Hein, of Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City, who has seen too many teens infected with HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases come through her hospital. She laments the fact that sex ed is only "about vaginas, ovaries and abstinence -- not about intimacy and expressing feelings." Kids, she says, "don't know what they're supposed to be doing, and adults are really not helping them much...
...manholes, up telephone poles, into trading pits and office cubicles. But the survey also delivered more pessimistic news: this uppermost tier of American professional women, those who have secretaries to help organize birthday parties, big salaries to afford customized child care and private offices from which to call the pediatrician, discovered that the workplace often turned hostile when they became mothers...