Word: physician
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...YORK: Who says Dr. Jack Kevorkian's a stiff? The controversial physician, known for his advocacy of doctor-assisted suicide, has just released a compact disc of original jazz tunes entitled "A Very Still Life." Listing for $18.95, the aptly titled CD contains 12 tracks in which Dr. Death can be heard jamming on the flute and organ with the background assistance of the Morpheus Quintet. "The thing I hope the world will say about me years from now is that I was a physician who helped relieve human suffering," Kevorkian writes in the CD's liner notes. "Music...
Despite his many trials at James Monroe, his desire to become a primary-care physician in his home neighborhood kept Ramos focused...
...chronic asthmatic, and when I was nine I used to think she was going to die a lot of the time," he says. "Every time she would go to the emergency room it was me to like she was being revived again; so I envied this power that this physician had to influence someone's quality of life and actually save lives...
...Imperial China, the royal physician was forbidden to touch the Emperor directly. A princeling would attach a long red thread to the Emperor's wrist, and the physician would grasp the thread, feeling the Emperor's pulse at a respectful distance. Governing Hong Kong after it reverts to Chinese sovereignty at midnight on June 30 will require the same exquisitely sensitive touch: an ability to understand Beijing from a distance, to sense what its leaders want and what they will tolerate...
Officially, the physician's red thread has been given to Tung Chee-hwa, a Hong Kong multimillionaire who lived for nine years in the U.S. and was handpicked by the communist bosses in Beijing to carry out their promise of a "high degree of autonomy" for the capitalist enclave. Looking over his shoulder, however, is an ardent spokesman for those who insist that Hong Kong can rule itself. Martin Lee stakes his claim to leadership on the voter's mandate to make Beijing live up to democratic...