Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Emil Frei, Smith Professor of Medicine and Director and Physician-in-chief of the Institute, also spoke and expressed hope for cancer research opportunities...
...Sidney Farber, who founded the cancer institute in 1942, treated Mayer during his battle with leukemia, until Mayer's death in 1947. Farber, a Harvard pathologist and physician, was the first doctor to use chemotherapy successfully against childhood leukemia...
...capita physician visits are also higher than ever before. Surveys reveal that we now seek medical attention for milder symptoms than ever in the past. We seem to be growing more discomfitted by the inevitable aches and ailments of life...
...condition was first identified in 1906, when German Physician Alois Alzheimer autopsied the brain of a woman with classic senile dementia. Because the woman was middle-aged, however, and because senility was considered a natural consequence of aging, Alzheimer's disease went unrecognized among the elderly until the 1960s. Today it is believed that Alzheimer's affects 5% to 10% of people over the age of 65, including half of all nursing- home residents...
...compensation was the gift of humor. It buffered him from harsh experience and provided the equanimity evident in his work both as a writer and a physician. Medicine suited his compassionate temperament and the need for a career to support his family after his father became a bankrupt and a drunk. Chekhov never shirked this responsibility; it became one reason not to start a family of his own. The other, more powerful rationale was his attraction to writing. In this matter, Troyat is particularly poignant, one might even say Chekhovian: "What was a woman to him, no matter how desirable...