Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...everyone. Washington was remarkably durable for his time-and lucky. His horses and uniforms were riddled with bullets at Braddock's defeat in the French and Indian War. He was untouched. But even his luck ran out finally. He died at 67 of a throat inflammation. A young physician in attendance wanted to open the trachea but was overruled by his seniors, still fearful of the new technique. A sturdy figure like Washington might have been around many more years with only a little bit of today's medical knowledge...
Cottle's curriculum vitae: age, 44. Overachieving child of prominent Chicago parents (father a physician, mother a concert pianist). B.A. from Harvard, Ph.D. in sociology from University of Chicago. Former assistant professor of psychology at Harvard. Author of 22 books, mostly about the disadvantaged and disenfranchised: abused children, the elderly, the indigent and the handicapped. His commitment is incontrovertible. So why has he given up teaching to gab with Phyllis Diller about her facelifts? "I feel strongly that this is the way to enlighten people," Cottle insists. "I'm trying to preserve my inquiry into human behavior through...
...Marine who has become an Orthodox Jewish male nurse. To Jack Buckman, director of emergency medicine, death is an opponent that must be beaten every time: "If it ever happens that somebody comes into the emergency department alive and awake and 15 minutes later he's dead, the physician taking care of him better have a goddam good reason why it happened...
...Eugene Sherry, a former Harvard-affiliated physician convicted of rape in 1981, was granted permission Monday to freely leave the United States and return to his homeland of New Zealand...
...vigor of the black churches, there is still a role in Africa for traditional missionaries with skills and tact. One is Alfred Merriweather, 63, a physician sent in 1944 by the United Free Church of Scotland to run the Livingstone Mission at Molepolole, Botswana; the center is named for David Livingstone, the famed 19th century Scottish missionary and explorer. Merriweather has seen massive changes over four decades. "On reflection, we made many mistakes. When I joined the mission service, my immediate senior banned traditional tribal dancing as being heathen. Today no one would dream of denying the local people their...