Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Psychologically he and his fellow tenants were "naked and disarmed" when the hospital began its secret mission to evict them, tear down their building and replace it with a 27-space parking lot. As a small boy, Worthy had accompanied his physician father on rounds in the hospitals of Greater Boston, acquiring a reverence for these institutions of healing. Most people share a similar attitude toward hospitals, and so they are unprepared to believe that a medical complex or, for similar sentimental reasons, a university or church can, in its relentless drive to force tenants out of a building, resort...
...other can no longer cope with the chores. A "meals-on-wheels" service, manned by volunteers-mainly from the Red Cross-delivers some 1,000 hot trays a day. If the patient needs help, the volunteer can quickly summon a nurse, social worker or the patient's family physician, who retains overall charge of the case. Says Susan Foss: "Five days a week I await the footsteps of the people from Extramural and their bright faces...
Died. Charles McMoran Wilson, Lord Moran, 94, Winston Churchill's personal physician and confidant for 25 years; in Hampshire, England. Moran gave up his private practice in 1940 after members of the Cabinet persuaded him to care for Churchill, then 65. The doctor and his patient shared an interest in history and literature and together traveled 140,000 miles to strategy conferences during World War II. Moran's Churchill ... The Struggle for Survival, 1940-65, an account of Sir Winston's fight against pneumonia, two strokes and gradual senescence, stirred the ire of Churchill's family...
...about Holzer's wizardry through a friend and invested $2,500 in what she understood was a "cement deal." The first $600 in profits was to have been mailed to her more than a year ago; so far she has not seen a cent. Guillermo Seco, a Manhattan physician, made a $35,000 investment through Holzer, who, he claims, sent him glowing earnings reports of the venture. But when it came time to collect his profits, he could not. He sued and won a court judgment of $181,018. Holzer declines to discuss details of precisely how her businesses...
Lancelot's book-length monologue is addressed not only to the reader but also to Percival, a priest-physician and boyhood friend. His name rings of both the author's own and of Lancelot's companion in the Arthurian legend. He is silent, staring at a girl out the window until the book closes with his response to Lancelot that is Percy's hope for a rejuvenated Christianity...