Word: physician
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Allow people to see and copy the records, to correct misinformation or at least get in their side of the story. One exception would be medical records, if a physician decides that disclosure would harm the patient...
...baby was due and started the journey by train from Gatun, on the Atlantic side of the Canal Zone, to Gamboa, where doctors in the clinic could attend the child's birth. But the baby would not wait, so Margaret Allen, a nurse, and Dr. Rodney Cline, a physician, both of whom happened to be aboard the train, delivered the woman's second son. The nurse became the child's godmother, the doctor forevermore the stuff of baseball trivia. Rod was a sickly child who contracted rheumatic fever when he was twelve. His resulting weakness drew...
...already making his second stop of the day at the hospital in Marion, Ill., a small (pop. 13,000) coal-mining town in the southern part of the state. He had delivered a baby there in the predawn hours. Now, after a short nap, the 30-year-old physician was back for his regular morning rounds. At the bedside of an 88-year-old man who had wrenched his back in a fall, he offered the cheering words that he could go home the next day. Checking the condition of a 59-year-old housewife, he satisfied himself that...
...human cancers; for example, doctors have found a high incidence of an otherwise rare form of lung cancer in workers exposed to asbestos, and are discovering another rare form of liver cancer among those who have worked with vinyl chloride. In 1958, a British physician named John Higginson was challenged by a skeptical scientific community when he suggested that 70% to 80% of all cancers are environmental in origin. Now many scientists suspect that the actual figure may be closer...
...team spokesman said yesterday that club physician Thomas Tierney will probably examine Evans today, and the club will then decide a decision whether or not to put him on the disabled list...