Word: physician
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hurts-even powerful members of Congress.That's why the medical office in the Capitol that cares for members of the House and Senate has a psychiatrist on call when the nation's legislators need a sympathetic ear. This little-known function of the secretive Capitol Office of the Attending Physician, run by the Navy, was exposed in a recent court filing in the case of former Congressman Duke Cunningham, sentenced last week to eight years and four months in prison, after admitting he took $2.4 million in bribes from defense contractors...
...Beverly Hills psychiatrist, at the request by Cunningham's lawyers, wrote in a report for last Friday's sentencing hearing that around the time Cunningham's corrupt activity began to be exposed last year, the Attending Physician's office found that he had "symptoms of severe depression with a 60-pound weight loss" and referred him to "the psychiatrist for the United States Senate and the House of Representatives...
...layer of sometimes miscellaneous information, in vaguely chronological order. Though Proust always insisted his masterwork was not a roman à clef, Davenport-Hines shows the parallels between Proust and his fictional narrator, real figures and the fabricated ones. Born in Paris to a rich Jewish mother and a Catholic physician father, Proust was a nervous, asthmatic child who grew up to be, in Davenport-Hines' phrase, "the most famous valetudinarian in literary history." His mother was his life's obsession. His father, ironically, made his reputation studying emotional disorders. Proust did military service before throwing himself into the Paris salon...
...symposium. Panelist Frederic Schwartz, a New York-based architect and a former visiting design critic at the Graduate School of Design, regretted the lack of undergraduates in attendance, saying that “when you learn, you can also help.” Diane M. Brockmeyer, a primary-care physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, said she attended the event out of an interest “in how the medical community can respond to disaster.” An Extension School student studying architecture, Vikki Lew, praised Summers for his references to “human and social...
...time when it is most vulnerable to pain is unquestionably inhumane. And yet this is exactly what partial-birth abortion involves. By the fifth month, the child’s head is so large that it is not possible to completely deliver the baby – so the physician delivers a baby to the point where only the head remains inside the womb but then punctures the back of the skull to remove the brain. Despite the gruesomeness of this procedure, there are still people who believe that a woman should have the right to choose to have...