Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...northern countries of the continent. What he saw made him angry, and soon he left for Guatemala, to join in the revolution there. It was soon put down by CIA-backed counter-revolutionaries, and Che would barely escape with his skin, to Mexico. His awareness now awakened, the young physician studied political theory there, and met a man named Fidel Castro...
Saving money is not the reason knowledgeable couples choose a midwife [Aug. 29]. Personalized care is. Certified nurse-midwives or competent lay midwives always work with physician backup, in case a complication develops. Because midwives manage only normal women, they can spend time with their patients and allow the family to choose the method of delivery...
...more than 20 years, Wiesenthal has been stalking Dr. Josef Mengele, the SS physician, known as the Angel of Death, who sent millions to the gas chambers at Auschwitz-Birkenau and killed thousands more in mad genetic experiments. Wiesenthal has long suspected-as have others-that Mengele was hiding in Paraguay. Despite firm denials from the Asunción government, Wiesenthal believes that Mengele is now living in the village of San Antonio, in a remote area southeast of the Paraguayan capital. But the evil physician of Auschwitz, frustratingly, remains beyond his reach...
Cook and Dowling made their first report in the London medical journal the Lancet. Now they have additional data prepared for publication, and another physician, Dr. Seymour Jotkowitz of Hackensack, has described an "impressive incidence of contact with sick dogs" in MS patients. Perhaps it is significant that among the many viruses that dogs harbor, one that causes distemper is a first cousin to that of the long-suspected human measles. Whether household pet dogs can ever be proved guilty of carrying an MS-related virus and what that virus may be are still open questions. Most veterinary authorities maintain...
...woman, admitted to the hospital with severe burns covering 95% of her body, asks a doctor if she is going to die. The physician replies carefully that although he cannot predict the future, survival in cases like hers is unprecedented. Does the woman want ordinary medical care or maximum-effort treatment, involving the use of life-prolonging machines? She chooses the ordinary care, consisting basically of painkillers and intravenous fluids, and dies quietly within hours...