Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Great Expectations, and the girls get Jane Eyre. The idea of featuring great novels about orphans is Dr. Larch's: "What in hell else would you read to an orphan?" Homer's duties gradually extend to the obstetrical. He becomes the doctor's trusted assistant, less than a physician but more than a midwife. Larch begins to see Homer as the son he never had and the one who will carry on the humane but illegal mission of St. Cloud...
Although Dr. Donal Billig had a flawed record as a physician, he got further than most: in little more than a year, he went from serving on the staff of a Pittsburgh hospital to running cardiothoracic surgery at Bethesda Naval Hospital, the Navy's flagship health operation. But his success was of short duration. After an in-house investigation, Bethesda suspended Billig last week for "an insufficient level of surgical competence...
...those who already have fur coats, there are interesting bargains in deluxe cars. Dr. Barry Henderson, an Atlanta physician, has a Jaguar XJ6 on his shopping list, a burgundy-colored four-door sedan. "You can get a Jaguar in the mid-20s," he says, "and they're at least $35,000 in the U.S. You have to have it modified for EPA regulations, but the savings outweigh the modification costs...
WHEN I LOOK back on it, I guess I can blame the Army. Somewhere back in the early '70s, they drafted my father, an articulate. Harvard-educated physician, and sent him to Roanoke, Va. Not even someplace nice, like Antarctica, but Roanoke--home of the largest block of coal cost of Mississippi. I guess I can also blame my father for not fleeing northward as soon as the Army released him, remaining in the South and scaling my fate...
...years after Gavin's find, a local physician and amateur photographer traveled to Israel to retrace the steps of the 19th century artists. At Gavin's suggestion, Dr. Daniel Tassel set out to create a "then and now" photographic history of the Holy Land. Nitza Rosovsky, a museum officer and authority on 19th century Jerusalem, assisted Tassel with the project...