Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...detail rides next to the driver; the President, usually with an adviser or a local dignitary, sits in back. Directly behind the President's car is the "Queen Mary," an open car with running boards and hand grips along the sides. Five agents and the President's personal physician occupy the seats, with an additional agent, an Israeli-made Uzi submachine gun at his feet, riding in a jump seat and looking to the rear. As many as four agents sometimes ride on the running boards...
...produced a saving of $1.3 billion over ten years. As they figure it, besides the 24 million cases of measles averted, 2,400 lives were saved, 7,900 cases of retardation prevented, 709,000 years of productive life made possible, and there were 78 million school days, 12 million physician visits and 1,352,000 hospital days saved...
What Finley did to Mike Andrews is something the A's will not soon forget. After Andrews made two costly errors in the second game of the 1973 World Series against the New York Mets, Finley announced that the team physician had found the second baseman unfit to play because of a sore arm. Bent on making room for another player to strengthen his roster, Finley dropped Andrews from the team. In protest, the A's wore his No. 17 on their sleeves at a workout before the third game. To a man, they insist that Finley ordered the doctor...
Psychiatrists are also trained to give their patients plenty of advance notice of their departure. "If a patient falls apart when his doctor is away, the physician is not practicing psychiatry. He is instead a babysitter," says Dr. Jules Masserman of Chicago. "We strive to make patients self-sufficient." Some doctors arrange to have their practices covered or leave their phone numbers for emergencies. "Woody Allen is wrong," says Boston's Dr. Henry Friedman. "Everyone doesn't just depart and leave a group of neurotics marching around the city...
Still, many patients feel resentful the minute their therapist leaves town. Explains Dr. Jacob Swartz of Boston: "It has to do with the mythology of the godlike physician, the fantasy that doctors are monklike hairshirt types who never need a vacation." Moreover, because a patient tends to establish a close parent-child relationship with his psychiatrist, he feels abandoned during his absence. Vacationing on Cape Cod last August, Manhattan Psychoanalyst David Mann received several phone calls from patients who had read about the novel Jaws. "They asked if I have been eaten by a shark. What they really wanted...