Word: physicians
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Skyrocketing medical malpractice insurance rates have turned many doctors into devout lawyer haters. And the M.D.s may soon get even angrier because a bimonthly legal magazine, Case & Comment, is touting yet another "new frontier in medical malpractice": the duty of a physician to warn former patients of any newly discovered danger in drugs or devices that the doctor prescribed in previous years. The magazine article dredges up a little noted 1978 California Court of Appeals decision called Tresemer vs. Barke, which involved the notorious Dalkon Shield intrauterine device. Within two years after Donna Sue Tresemer had a shield inserted...
...Memphis blues are over for Dr. George Nichopoulos, 54. As Elvis Presley's physician during the final eleven years of the singer's life, Nichopoulos had been charged with eleven counts of dispensing vast quantities of narcotics, sedatives and amphetamines to Presley and ten other patients. During the 16 days of testimony in Memphis, the prosecution said the physician had prescribed more than 12,000 doses of various drugs to Presley in the last 20 months of his life. But defense witnesses painted a picture of a doctor who took in patients other doctors had spurned, a "good...
...most significant medical problems affecting survivors of a nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union States and the Soviet Union will be infection and the spread of communicable disases, according to a Harvard Medical School Physician writing in the November issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, released today...
...home to Ver mont and consider his vote. "When you're walking those fields and looking over those beautiful mountains, think of my face up there in the sky looking down on you," the President said. Replied Leahy: "I'll have to go to the Capitol physician first to get my arm put back in the socket." Vermont offered little escape. At Sunday Mass, an usher passing the collection bas ket leaned over and whispered, "Vote against AWACS." Leahy finally...
...cable: stationary bicycles, cross-country skiing simulators, rowing machines, Nautilus weight stations and racks of dumbbells positioned around the spacious, brown-carpeted gym. Down a hallway hung with modern paintings are whirlpool baths and a sunning room studded with ultraviolet and infra-red lamps. Near by: offices for a physician and a full-time exercise physiologist...