Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pulled or sore hamstring, Miller dons his Free Spirit before every practice and every game. "A runner like me," he explains, "needs muscle control when I stop, start and make my cuts. The girdle keeps my hamstring from flapping around." Says Dr. Don Cooper, the Oklahoma State team physician who sold Miller and three of his teammates on the idea last season: "The girdle provides an evenness of support over the whole length of the hamstring, from the pelvic bone to the back of the knee. We cut out the crotch to allow for la différence. One player...
...Tampa lost consecutively to Houston, San Diego, Buffalo, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Seattle (another expansion team), Miami and Kansas City. When I caught up with them in Denver their record was 0 and 8, but their spirits were stained with hope. The Denver Broncos had been playing poorly, and a Denver physician who played football told me, "We need a new quarterback and a new coach." That complaint classically signifies trouble, and trouble-somebody else's trouble-was what the Buccaneers needed most...
...campaign in which he gave voters the impression that he was 1) a self-made man, 2) a graduate of Harvard Business School and 3) a swinging bachelor. During the closing weeks of the campaign it was disclosed that Maxfield 1) was the son of a prosperous Texas physician, 2) had only attended a six-week business course at Harvard and 3) was married and the father of two children. He was defeated by Republican Thomas Coleman, 33, a lawyer and state representative...
Aspirin or Ice Bag. With Swiftian hyperbole, Berman modestly proposes that "over 80% of the patients chancing the physician's skills have little more wrong with them than what a considerate spouse, a kindly bartender or a hefty raise in salary couldn't cure." For most of the rest, he would prescribe nothing more exotic than milk of magnesia, aspirin, an ice bag or Preparation...
Though the book has drawn predictable cries of outrage from many doctors and led one physician-reviewer to note that Berman seems to be trying to do for his profession what Jaws did for ocean bathing, others have been more generous. After reading the corrosive chapter on his own specialty, Heart Surgeon Denton Cooley, himself a target of a few Berman barbs, commented: "A lot of fun." A plastic surgeon said that "anyone who is upset does not have a sense of humor." Rockland State Hospital's Dr. Nathan Kline, who is twitted along with other psychiatrists for pushing...