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Doctors and laymen alike were shocked and outraged at an anonymous letter in the January 8th issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. In the letter, a resident physician wrote in, describing how he had been summoned to the bedside of a 20-year-old patient named Debbie, who was dying of ovarian cancer...
Naturally, such a revamped job description means more responsibility -- and more respect. Nurses are often the first to spot trouble, make sense of a patient's confusing symptoms or suggest a needed change in treatment. Yet acting on such observations has traditionally been the physician's purview. R.N.s must become full-fledged members of the team and be expected to engage ! in the medical give-and-take about patients' well-being. That role is never in doubt on the AIDS ward at Sherman Oaks Community Hospital, where doctors and nurses find themselves depending on one another to battle the deadly...
Speaking of alphabets, after the world championships next month, Witt and her string of S's will probably head for the silver screen, while Thomas, who suits Carmen to a P, will study to become a physician. "I'm still alive," Thomas said firmly as her disappointing scores flashed. "I can get on in my life, and I'll be fine." Amid all the hype and cheers and tears, those words rang brave and sincere...
...with a heroine who is an unmistakable incarnation of Hester Prynne, the most famous adulteress in American literature. Sarah Worth (nee Price) boasts a Prynne among her ancestors and, like Hester, a daughter named Pearl. This mother too is a fallen woman, running away from Massachusetts and her physician-husband of some 20 years to join a charismatic Indian guru's ashram in the Arizona desert. After her plane lands in Los Angeles, she relays a message home to her best friend Midge: "I stayed in this motel near the airport in a dreary area called Hawthorne...
Doctors who specialize in treating old people delight in telling the story of a 90-year-old man named Morris who has a complaint about his left knee. Says his exasperated physician: "For heaven's sake, at your age what do you expect?" Rejoins Morris feistily: "Now look here, Doc, my right knee is also 90, and it doesn't hurt." It is an apocryphal tale with a pointed message. As long as anyone can remember, old age and disability have been paired as naturally and inevitably as the horse and carriage or death and taxes. After all, advancing years...