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Nine days later Jimmy woke up. Recalls Pediatrician Paulette Harar at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, where the boy has been since Feb. 28: "He would lie on the bed sucking his thumb, curled up in a little ball. There commands like 'Sit up' or Steadfast work with therapists has helped Jimmy regain control over movement, speech and thought...
Graham, in an Associated Press story of December 29, 1983, went on to insist that, contrary to popular belief, Black children are "probably the best nourished group in the United States." The pediatrician cited as evidence the achievements of Black athletes. Malnutrition exists in certain areas, he said, but hunger among children "is not a national problem...
Facing up to the debt crisis will be the sternest test for Lusinchi, a pediatrician who has spent 40 years working for Action Democratica, chiefly as a quiet but effective grass-roots organizer. Though he is a populist by inclination, he will confront the need to administer a stiff dose of austerity after taking office next February...
...stomach, but nothing could be done to prevent retardation. His parents were confronted with an agonizing dilemma: to assent to an operation that would save the life of a child who could be hopelessly retarded, or to allow him to die of starvation. Against the wishes of their pediatrician and hospital, they chose the latter. The parents' right to this choice was twice challenged in the courts by the hospital and twice upheld. On April 15, Baby Doe died...
...police and social workers criticize doctors, particularly in private hospitals, for mending broken bones and cigarette burns on young bodies without taking action to prevent "an accident" from happening again. "In most cases the stories given by parents are not consistent with the injury," says Dr. Annette Picker, a pediatrician at Children's Hospital National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., which handles some 600 cases of child abuse a year, more than half of them sexual. (Children two years old and younger sometimes arrive with herpes and gonorrhea, including oral, anal and genital infections.) Says she: "Our first obligation...