Word: physicians
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Several speakers presented statistical findings to support their claim that minorities are often at a disadvantage in health care. Dr. Roberto Montoya, director of the Health Professions career opportunity program in Sacramento, California, demonstrated the lack of accessible health care by presenting physician-to-patient ratios in urban, low-income areas with heavy minority populations. He noted that cities like San Antonio, Chicago, and Detroit have ratios comparable to developing, war-sticken counties such as Honduras...
...fantasies--from Big Brother's totalitarian regime to Woody Allen's scientist doctors cloning a man from his nose. But most authors and directors and sociologists and philosophers start from the premise that the society thus transformed was ready for progress to begin with. Dr. Seymour Gray, an American physician appointed to head a brand-new hospital in Saudi Arabia, had the opportunity to see how much more wrenching such advancement can be when a country moves from a primitive nomadic culture to a modern technological state in only a few decades...
...living, Simple Truths explores the plight of the descendants of holocaust survivors and how the legacy of guilt destroys their lives as well. Susan Warner, the novel's protagonist, is the daughter of two concentration camp survivors. Her father escaped death by working as a camp physician, a fact which Susan's mother, an embittered and vengeful woman, takes pleasure in tormenting him with. Neither of Susan's parents are able to release themselves from their world of guilt, and both wind up committing suicide...
...coke market," ventures George Schiavone, a fashion photographer familiar with the cocaine scene in Miami, "is the same as the nuke-freeze market. You're not talking about just 'druggies.' You're talking about all walks of life." One former Oregon physician, disastrously addicted for five years, knows how the groovy group solidarity fades...
Jules Trop's life as he turned 45 was exactly what he wanted it to be. The Miami Beach physician enjoyed a lucrative practice, a waterfront home on a private island in Biscayne Bay and a prized art collection. There was an added fillip: cocaine. Many of his rich patients used and sold the drug, and Trop was sucked in by its siren charms...