Word: physician
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ambassador to Britain. But his swollen and painful leg kept Nixon indoors, away from the 18-hole golf course and eleven gravity-fed lakes and pools. On Thursday night two helicopters carried the former President and his entourage back to San Clemente. The next morning Nixon's personal physician, Dr. Walter Tkach, flew in from Washington...
...while sitting in the confining bucket seat of his sports car. Gould could find no obvious cause of the discomfort but noticed that the doctor carried a bulging wallet in his hip pocket. He speculated that the wallet might be pressing against the sciatic nerve and suggested that the physician remove it. When he did, his pain disappeared. Gould's theory was confirmed when he developed the same ailment. Golfer Gould's habit of carrying golf balls in his left back pocket never bothered him until he rode around the course in a golf cart. Then...
...about the X-rayed children last June when she read a newspaper article about the efforts by doctors to locate and examine them. When she visited her parents in Wisconsin a few weeks later, she learned that she, too, had had the X-ray treatments. After seeing her family physician, who assured her that he could detect no thyroid abnormality, she agreed to become part of a research program launched by the Medical College of Wisconsin at Milwaukee County General Hospital...
...instance, throughout the documents, the defense seeks to establish that a woman has the right to determine "the circumstances and procedures of the termination of her pregnancy in consultation with her physician...including the right to participate in medical and scientific research and to allow the abortus to be used in connection therewith...
...landmark decision of Roe v. Wade in January 1973 and also a Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court finding of July 1974 in Doe v. Doe. The Supreme Court's "abortion decision" asserted that a woman has the right of privacy to terminate a pregnancy with the approval of a physician. The majority opinion in the latter case held that this right obtains even where a husband objects. "In both cases a great deal of authority is given to the mother," Chayet added. A national commission is now considering resolutions that would limit the authority a woman has to permit research...