Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rose up on his toes and began to dance lightly and smile occasionally. His hands gathered speed, and Cooney became especially hittable. By the sixth, Rappaport and co-Manager Mike Jones had to make room in the corner for Cutman Artie Curley, whose patchwork was inspected once by the physician at ringside. In the 90° desert heat, aggravated by the television lights, both men sprayed sweat like revolving lawn sprinklers. Holmes, 6 ft. 3 in. and 212½ lbs., and Cooney, 6 ft. 6 in. and 225½ lbs., looked equally fit. Cooney, who lad never before been required...
...company's toys.and electronic games. In Whippany, N.J., Channel Home Centers, a 91-store hardware chain, offers home repair and fix-it advice from "Dr. Wally Barnett," whose role is played by a Channel employee and two assistants. "Dr. Wally" is sometimes mistakenly considered to be a physician, and people call in with questions about how to deliver a baby or treat a sore throat...
...physician charges that her colleagues treat patients as objects...
Michelle Harrison had been a family physician for eight years when she decided to scrap her New Jersey practice and retrain as an obstetrician-gynecologist. The 35-year-old doctor was drawn to the field by the rewards she had experienced attending "home births," by the pleasures of her own pregnancy and motherhood and by her ardent commitment to feminism and women's health. Harrison, who is divorced, searched for a part-time residency that would permit her to care for her five-year-old daughter Heather. She landed such a position at Boston's renowned Beth Israel...
SUMEX, say proponents like Dr. Edward Shortliffe, who holds both an M.D. and a Ph.D. in medical information sciences from Stanford, is the product of a new kind of programming that imitates a physician's thought processes. In contrast to electronic libraries (computers that are little more than sophisticated adding machines or memory banks) the SUMEX program works with "uncertainty" factors. These yield recommendations to physicians that avoid simplistic black-and-white terms in favor of various shades of gray. The program is designed to take into account all the available evidence that might either buttress or call into...