Word: physicians
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Alzheimer's disease was first identified in 1906 by German Physician Alois Alzheimer. His patient, a 51-year-old woman, suffered loss of memory, disorientation and later, severe dementia. After her death, Alzheimer conducted an autopsy on her brain and found the two distinctive characteristics of the disease: tangled clumps of nerve fibers and patches of disintegrated nerve-cell branches. Because Alzheimer's patient was relatively young, AD was at first considered a disease of middle age; similar symptoms in elderly people were simply regarded as a natural consequence of aging. Today this view has been discarded. Even...
...since Alzheimer's day, and even diagnosis remains difficult. The only way to be absolutely certain that a patient has the disorder is to examine the brain after death. Thus, the diagnosis must be approximated by a careful process of elimination. Through CAT scanning and other tests, the physician gradually determines that the patient has not suffered a series of small strokes, does not have Parkinson's disease, a brain tumor, depression, an adverse drug reaction or any other possible cause of dementia. If all tests are negative, AD is diagnosed by default. This conclusion may be further...
...white-coated physician leaned over his patient, holding a stethoscope to his chest, nothing seemed out of the ordinary. But one detail did distinguish the examination from those conducted routinely in Israeli hospitals: the paper pinned to the patient's left sleeve identified him as "Dr. Niksa. Hunger Striker. Orthopedics Department." Throughout Israel last week doctors were collapsing in emergency rooms or working with intravenous tubes hanging from their arms. Of the country's 28 hospitals most were handling nothing but emergency cases, and only four were functioning normally. The reason: 2,700 doctors, convinced that they...
...advertisements, advice columns, how-to manuals and diaries kept by women of the period attest to an oppressed existence, all too often foreshortened by death from childbirth. Small wonder that Victorian women ingested vast quantities of alcohol and opium patent medicines. Inveighing against these tranquilizers of the age, one physician declared, "Their manufacturers are deserving of a place in the deepest part of the bottomless pit." His foresight is an astonishment; Green's hindsight is an education...
...million-a-year pay by keeping CBS in first place in network news. Perhaps that is why NBC, ABC and Cable News Network gave such prominence to Rather's uncomfortable three days on the stand in Los Angeles, where he and CBS were being sued by a physician Linked to an insurance-fraud scheme by 60 Minutes. That slander trial ended last week in a judgment for CBS, but the experience was embarrassing nonetheless...