Word: physician
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seems honest and authentic, someone who doesn't stare over your shoulder when he's talking to see who has come into the room. "You ask him a question, and he doesn't build you a watch, he answers it," says Dr. Charles Kalil, 82, a semiretired Phoenix, Arizona, physician. "It's refreshing to talk to a politician who doesn't hem and haw and has the facts...
...question of how sick Mitterrand was, and when he learned about it, is now the center of a fierce political debate in France. Last week his former personal physician, Dr. Claude Gubler, published a book disclosing that Mitterrand had, despite promises to be candid about his health in office, kept the seriousness of his cancer secret from the public for more than a decade. Shortly after publication, a French court banned the book from sale...
...position where you don't discuss it, or else discuss it and, worse yet, indicate that all the data is negative or that there is not a significant amount of data about this, I think you've irreparably damaged the very thing that makes you as a physician so valuable to patients...
...Popik sees it a bit differently. "What should happen," he says, "is that a physician shouldn't create an expectation for a patient. Because once that expectation is completed, you start a process that is extremely difficult to change." He adds, "There are other ways to give people hope. And that's the paradigm shift...
...Gupta confirms he saw Christy that day but says he does not recall this aspect of their encounter. He did not in fact have the authority to make such referrals, he says; these can only be made by a patient's primary-care physician. Asked why, then, he felt empowered to make the first referral to Dr. McMillan at Scripps, he says, "I knew those people...