Word: physician
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sorts also told me that my only health problems would involve my digestive tract; three weeks later I was hospitalized for paratyphoid fever, also known as intestinal salmonella. So we'll suspend our skepticism for him, even though he tried to hawk his cure for AIDS to my physician mother so she could market it in the United States...
Dear old Saint Valentine hardly has a romantic story. He spent his working days as a pagan priest and physician in ancient Rome until he was thrown in jail for protecting persecuted Christians. While in jail, Valentine converted to Christianity and restored sight to the jailer's daughter. Then they clubbed him to death, which when you think about it, was a relatively painless way to achieve martyrdom in those days. It sure beat the lions...
Gone too is the notion that a regimen of N.B.A. basketball would weaken Johnson and accelerate the onset of AIDS. Says Dr. Michael Mellman, Johnson's primary physician and the man who originally informed him of his condition: "We still do not know how much a body can take. But for Earvin, we're talking about returning to what used to be normal...
TODAY "PRACTICE PROFILES" ARE BEING formed on how much it costs for a physician to treat each illness. This profile would be quite important in my individual "credentialing," in determining whether I could participate in an insurance plan or be on a certain hospital staff. Quite a change from when credentials were determined by training and ability. The winners in this scheme: big business, the insurance companies, the hospitals and the lawyers. The losers: doctors and their patients. PAUL M. PAVLOV, M.D. Ocean Springs, Mississippi...
...just blue-collar employees who are expected to check their freedom of speech at the company door. In mid-December, Boston physician David Himmelstein was fired for going public about the gag clause in his employer's contract with doctors, forbidding them to "make any communication which undermines or could undermine the confidence...of the public in U.S. Healthcare..." or even revealing that this clause is in their contract...