Word: physicians
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However, the report notes the use of such aids as televised smoking clinics and taped telephone messages to encourage maintained abstinence. "Brief and simple advice to quit smoking delivered by a physician" can offer substantial support. Even after a person quits, the report says, it takes up to 15 years for the ex-smoker's chances of developing cancer to drop to those of a nonsmoker. The Surgeon General's report notes that a child is about twice as likely to become a smoker if either parent is one. As to giving up cigarettes, a college degree helps...
Basically, the author handles the elements of warfare as a physician would examine parts of the human body, without prudery or shame. The result could be one of the publishing sleepers of the season. For while most people do not like to openly discuss the facts of war, they are secretly fascinated by them. There is also the anxiety factor. Not since the nuclearwar shivers of the '50s, which peaked with the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, has there been so much discussion about the possibilities of global conflict...
...blast--everyone in Cambridge, Everett, Dorchester. Watertown--is killed istantly. Ninety percent of the survivors elsewhere require immediate attention for severe burns. But because most hospitals have been destroyed an most health workers are dead, each person must wait in agony for 26 days to be seen by a physician for just five minutes. Epidemic diseases flourish in the absence of any public sanitation or health care. Since transportation, water, food, and housing are virtually non-existent, community spirit and public order vanish in the scramble among traumatized survivors for what is left...
...doctors have come to two conclusions," announced Henry Kissinger, 58, to the throng of reporters at Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital. "One, that I do have a heart; second, that it is in need of repair." Kissinger's longtime friend and personal physician, W. Gerald Austen, chief of surgery at Massachusetts General, explained that the operation was to be a triple coronary bypass, in which a major vein from the patient's leg would be used to make detours around the clogged arteries leading to his heart. Kissinger handled the risks diplomatically: he quipped that...
...wrote Anton Chekhov to Solomon Rabinovich. The attraction of disciple and master seemed strange at the time: Rabinovich was an obscure Jew who wrote under the name Sholom Aleichem (literally, peace be unto you). Chekhov was a renowned and worldly physician-writer nearing the end of his life...