Word: physicians
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After the accident, a Bellows Falls physician placed the severed digits in a sterile plastic bag, packed them in ice, and sent them with Bates by ambulance to MGH, Bender said...
Morse, who presided over the original trial, did not dispute the jury's finding of negligence on the part of Dr. Alan R. Spievack, a UHS assistant surgeon and assistant clinical professor of surgery, and Dr. Joan R. Golub, Glicklich's private physician...
Regular self-examination, say physicians, is the best way to find the disease early. The exam should be performed after a warm bath or shower, when the scrotal skin is most relaxed. The telltale sign is a lump the size of a pea. Doctors caution that a lump does not necessarily mean cancer, but it should be reported promptly to a physician and checked...
...internal body structures, not just bones but soft tissues as well. But scanning by CAT (for computerized axial tomography) is limited to anatomy. It lets doctors see an organ's shape and form, but cannot tell how it is functioning. PET (for positron emission tomography) allows the physician to examine the brain and body in ways never before possible, providing metabolic portraits, and revealing the rate at which sick and healthy tissues consume biochemicals...
Oklahoma had to clear another hurdle: the Hippocratic oath prohibits giving "deadly medicine." Last year the American Medical Association declared that a physician should not participate in executions. Dr. Armond Start, who supervises health care for Oklahoma's 5,000 inmates and was originally designated to insert the needle, took the same stance. That set off an acrimonious debate, highlighted by suggestions that Start resign. Finally the state concluded that the injections could be administered by non-doctors...