Word: physician
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Indiana, Governor Otis Bowen (who is himself a physician) recently signed a bill that limits the total award in any malpractice suit to $500,000, sets a ceiling on lawyers' fees, and establishes a panel to screen malpractice claims and weed out nuisance suits. The measure also establishes a fund, to be created from a surcharge on insurance premiums, to ease the burden on insurance companies by covering any award in excess of $100,000. Idaho has enacted a law limiting liability to $150,000 in cases involving one person, $300,000 in cases involving more than...
Shigeto became head of the city's Red Cross Hospital in 1948 and assumed the directorship of the newly built Atomic Bomb Memorial Hospital in 1956. But he still found time to treat bomb victims. "I'm a bedside physician," he said. "It's my duty to do all I can for them." His patients were reassured by his calm, Buddha-like demeanor. Said a woman suffering from a bomb-induced cancer, "I feel relieved each time he even smiles...
...outstanding women and men from professional pursuits other than law and business, this year's list is once again dominated by big businessmen and lawyers. Among the 21 candidates for both AHA and the Board of Overseers, 1 note only one woman--and she is a lawyer one physician and one journalist, Conspicuous in their absence, this year as also in the past, are alumni pursuing careers in the arts--the theatre, music, architecture, painting--despite the avowed objectives of the Board of Overseers and its standing committees, especially its Visiting Committees...
...physician said only four of the original 69 prospective jurors were black. that Maguire dismissed two and that prosecutor then challenged the remaining two blacks...
...Santiago for a scientific meeting at the University in the Spring of 1971. At that time friends took me to meet President Allende. I said to him "You are a physician." "Yes,"--he replied. "Like Juan Negrin." I said--speaking of the ill-fated President of the Spanish Republic. "Ah!" said Allende. "I hope that this time it will end better...