Word: physician
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...comparative laxity of Mexican drug-regulatory laws and the predatory ways of get-rich-quick doctors. Until recently, thousands of Americans crossed the border for the sole purpose of buying Redotex, a potent Mexican-made diet prescription not licensed for sale in the U.S.; some pill-dispensing physicians became millionaires almost overnight. "They would send young boys out to tout for patients," recalls a Mexican physician in Nuevo Laredo. "Some doctors would see as many as 100 patients on a weekend. They would call them in five at a time and sometimes dispense the pills themselves." The Mexican government...
...thought, Would it be possible to bring to the human world what Uncle brought to plant life?" Unfortunately, this "crucial project" is interrupted by a bit of mundane melodrama. After 15 years as a widower, Benn marries the young, beautiful Matilda Layamon, only child of a wealthy, well-connected physician...
DIED. Stewart B. McKinney, 56, nine-term moderate Republican Congressman from Connecticut; from a bacterial infection brought on by AIDS, which his physician said was contracted from blood transfusions during multiple-bypass heart surgery in 1979; in Washington. The Washington Post said that McKinney, the first member of Congress known to have died from AIDS, had homosexual relationships; his wife declined to comment directly on the newspaper's report...
...banes of the gynecological exam: icy stirrups on the examining table are covered by foot warmers and vaginal specula are warmed. The clinic at Georgia Baptist Medical Center in Atlanta even offers a small gym and Tupperware-like health parties at which women get to throw questions at a physician. Above all, the centers claim that their largely female staffs are able to treat women without the impersonality and condescension of traditional practices...
With his wife and three children, including a son who had been imprisoned for unrelated dissident activities, Koryagin boarded a jet last week and flew to Switzerland. The physician, who was released from detention only last February, said on reaching Zurich that he agreed to leave his homeland because he feared being subjected to more "Bolshevik terror." What about Party Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of glasnost? Said Koryagin: "Practically nothing has changed. We were still seen as political criminals. The 'opening up' is only words...