Word: philadelphia
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...patients, Koop saw many so-called difficult cases become happy and productive children. One of these was Paul Sweeney, born in 1965 with twisted intestines, facial deformities and a cleft palate. Koop operated on him 37 times. For the final operation by another surgeon in 1983, Koop returned to Philadelphia in full dress uniform to wheel his former patient into the operating room. Sweeney recently graduated from West Chester University in Pennsylvania...
...treatment accorded surgeons, Koop was stunned by the viciousness of Washington, which has neither gods nor heroes. Every day he would go to his temporary office on the seventh floor at the Department of Health and Human Services. Every day the phone wouldn't ring. His wife, uprooted from Philadelphia, waited in their small sublet wondering whether to unpack. One day Koop returned to find tears rolling down her face, a critical newspaper article on her lap. He considered leaving, but Betty persuaded him to stay. The two had been through a lot -- long years of medical school, Koop...
Tums, meet Tagamet. The race to create global pharmaceutical companies inspired a transatlantic merger last week. London's Beecham Group, maker of Tums antacid, and Philadelphia's SmithKline Beckman, developer of the anti- ulcer drug Tagamet, said they will form a company with more than $6.7 billion in total sales. The merged corporation, to be renamed SmithKline Beecham, will rank No. 2 in the pharmaceutical world to New Jersey-based Merck...
Renninger and McConaghy will need to be on this weekend if Harvard hopes to leave the door open for a shot at the EIBL title. On Saturday, the Crimson challenge Navy (4-6 EIBL) in a doubleheader in Annapolis, Md., and on Sunday, Harvard meets Penn (11-1) in Philadelphia, also in a twinbill...
...Crimson has two league doubleheaders this weekend against perennial power Navy in Annapolis, Md., on Saturday and defending champion Penn (undefeated in EIBL competition this year) in Philadelphia on Sunday...