Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with health problems that require medical attention. But, he says, " felt I had often been steered to second-rate people." Seeking the best, Pekkanen mailed out questionnaires to 500 specialists, tallied the more than 300 replies, then conducted follow-up telephone or personal interviews. The key question asked each physician: "If you or a member of your family were ill with a problem in your own specialty, whom would you go to for treatment...
...caveat: merely knowing the names does not guarantee access to the doctors, even by telephone. Those listed are all superspecialists who usually handle only the most complex cases; they often accept only patients who are referred by another physician...
Though Pekkanen admits that a list of 2,500 (out of more than 400,000 physicians in the nation) omits many of the best, bruised egos abound. Ignored doctors have sent Pekkanen their multipage résumés, and the distraught wife of one physician forwarded even more convincing evidence of her husband's merit: a photograph of him with Merv Griffin...
...Secret Service to guard Kennedy. They now watch over him around the clock, three shifts of five or six agents each, all identified by a lapel button and an earplug linked to a walkie-talkie. When traveling, Kennedy is usually accompanied by Aide Lawrence Horowitz, who is a licensed physician...
...surgeons also took lymph nodes from his neck and a slice from his liver, and afterward made a more serious announcement: the Shah was suffering from histiocytic lymphoma, a form of cancer of the lymphatic system. The disease also involved his spleen, but, said the hospital's physician in chief, Dr. Hibbard Williams, ''some potential for cure exists.'' He added that the Shah would remain at the hospital for six weeks and might require as much as 18 months of outpatient chemotherapy...