Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reason the trainers can be helpful to the physician is that they get to know the players on a day to day basis. Every day players come in with blisters and minor muscle pulls. "With a small team like [women's] soccer, I see 90 percent of the players regularly," for taping or icing, says trainer Kathryn A. Smith...
Athletes also complain that it is difficult to get an appointment with a physician. In the fall, Boland comes to the training room every day, but in the spring he only sees athletes on Wednesdays. Smith says this is because the fall sports produce more injuries. "Contact sports have to take more attention," she says. "That's where the liabilities demand...
...province of a former French colony "in the dead heart of the African continent, a land as close to nowhere as the planet could provide." The southward creep of the Sahara and the drying up of nearby Lake Kotto have driven most of the native residents away, leaving the physician with hardly anyone to treat but General Harare and his ragtag band of Marxist guerrillas. But these rebel patients do not trust Mallory, because he has conceived a scheme to drill the dry lake bed and tap into a potential third Nile, which will turn the parched land green...
...highly recommend the Gestapo to everyone." This defiant and, under the circumstances, risky display of contempt was typical of the man who invented psychoanalysis. Throughout his life, Freud sought to maintain control. In his final hours, suffering through the last stages of throat cancer in 1939, he told the physician who had accompanied him to England to "make an end of it." The doctor obediently administered enough morphine to induce a coma from which the patient never awakened...
...been made of Freud's cocaine dependency. As a young man he used the drug to chase the blues, relax on social occasions and, as he wrote to his future bride, make himself feel like a "big wild man." The substance did cause him ego problems when another physician beat him to the journals with his findings on the pain-killing properties of coca. His own paper on the subject was well received, but as he wrote in an 1884 letter to his sister-in-law, "the cocaine business has indeed brought me much honor, but the lion's share...