Word: physicians
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Dooling adopted the language of a Supreme Court ruling to define what constitutes a "medically necessary" abortion: "... a professional judgment for the physician that may be exercised in the light of all factors-physical, emotional, psychological, familial and the woman's age -relevant to the well-being of the patient." Abortion opponents nonetheless criticized the definition as too broad. Said Robert Destro, general counsel for the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights: "Judge Dooling's definition of health means anything. He leaves no meaningful distinction between elective and nonelective abortions...
During all this speculation, Presley's personal physician, George Nichopoulos, 52-or "Dr. Nick," as the affable, white-haired Memphis practitioner was known in the Presley household-steadfastly maintained that any drug abuse by the singer was "accidental." But last fall the Tennessee board of medical examiners filed a 59-page complaint against Nichopoulos, charging him with indiscriminately prescribing uppers, downers, tranquilizers and narcotics for Presley and 19 other people, including Singer Jerry Lee Lewis. (The state pharmacy board filed its own charges against Memphis Druggist Irving Jack Kirsch, who had filled many of Presley's prescriptions.) According...
...open-air entertainment festival, dubbed Roman Summer, that has brought the capital concerts and ballroom dancing in public parks. The program has been singularly successful, so much so that it has tended to show up the Communist regime's failures by comparison. Says a former public health service physician: "In a city where mail remains undelivered, garbage litters the streets, schools are infested with lice, and terror and crime stalk the streets, the only thing the Communists gave us is dancing in the park...
Descended from Russian immigrants, Rodgers used to say that his original family surname was so long that not even he knew just what it was. His father was a well-to-do New York physician who took the family to operas and musicals and liked to sing the scores at home; his mother was an amateur pianist. By the time he was four, Richard could pick out melodies on the family piano. He scarcely bothered with lessons...
...very issue caused a recent falling out between Mugabe and Tongogara, who had been a staunch advocate of guerrilla unity. The British sponsors of the settlement could only hope that such rivalries would not frustrate the prevailing desire of a long-suffering people. Said Dr. Edward Chitate, a black physician near the farming town of Gatooma: "The people don't give a damn which party gets in. All they want is a cessation of hostilities...