Word: physicians
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...there is also a Baha'i law against being fanatical, Diessner says. "We do seek advice of physicians when ill and consider anything a physician prescribes [to be] okay...
This is important to the crisis swirling around Doc Bowen, the first physician to command the Department of Health and Human Services, for he is now prescribing Government action against the havoc caused by catastrophic illness. Specifically, Bowen has proposed that by charging Medicare beneficiaries an extra $4.92 each month, the Medicare program could pay all hospital and doctor bills above...
...notes, published by Dawson's biographer, Francis Watson, in the journal History Today, indicate that the royal physician gave the King two fatal injections, one consisting of three-quarters of a grain of morphine and the other of one grain of cocaine, at about 11 p.m. on Jan. 20, 1936. King George, who was 70 and had long been in failing health, died 40 minutes later. After the injections Dawson advised the editor of the Times of London to stand by for late news. Next morning a headline in the Times proclaimed, A PEACEFUL ENDING AT MIDNIGHT...
...fighting, of course. "Uncivilized man may have been bloodthirsty," observes the Journal of the American Medical Association, not referring to the glistening eyes and panting gills of Las Vegas. "Boxing should not be sanctioned by any civilized society." On the other side of the ring, Ali's old corner physician, Dr. Ferdie Pacheco, points out, "You need ! only to turn on the box on Sundays to see an amazing number of stretcher cases being dragged off the field." But then, football is a game...
...Houdini," reflects Dr. Thomas Loescher, Appleton's chief emergency- room physician, "was probably the greatest magician who ever lived: the drama, the presentation, the superb physical ability, the personality. I've always felt proud he was from Appleton. It's living in reflected glory, I guess." It wasn't until 1985 that the city finally got around to honoring its most celebrated citizen, dedicating its new downtown plaza in his honor. The house where the Weiss family used to live stood just to one side, notes William A. Brehm Jr., a card-carrying magician who is also the city...