Word: physician
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Henry Withers, a general practitioner with a large practice in Houston, also serves as VIP-only physician on call for the city's swanky Warwick Hotel. One night recently he got a call from a frantic guest, Martha Mitchell. Her daughter Marty, 10, had a sore throat and fever. When the good doctor turned up, Martha turned up her nose. "He looked like a busboy," she said later. "His hair was frazzled. He had on funny-looking clothes." Withers says he thought he looked "pretty nice. I had showered. I had on a new sports coat, new slacks." When...
...last Crimson back to be named All-American in football. Wood graduated summa cum laude and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and went on to become a bacteriologist who wrote one of the first papers on penicillin. Wood spent his life as a teacher, physician, and researcher and served 11 years as head of the department of microbiology at Johns Hopkins University...
...physician, Chekhov focused on life instead of zeroing in on a desk, a blank piece of paper and some obsessive fantasy or other. As a doctor, he knew that to some degree the patient is the disease. A doctor with a tragic sense is aware that all of his patients will die, even the ones whom he has helped to cure. In the meantime, there is the interminable process of living. Diagnosis is simply a gauge for determining what stage the wasting-away process has reached. Chekhov is a great diagnostician, a man with an immensely vital sense of life...
...replace them, Dr. Risher Watts Jr., 45, a black physician who headed the hospitals' combined medical staffs, set about recruiting young doctors who were willing to accept the risks of working in the ghetto. Those risks were considerable: Showalter has been mugged near the hospital; two doctors have had close calls. But Watts now has a staff of more than 100 doctors, including 15 blacks. Each hospital's board also includes seven black directors...
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