Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last week were enjoying the final moments of their summer holidays. An uncommon number of them, including President François Mitterrand, seemed to have their noses buried in a book. The tome was France's latest rage, a 565-page edition of the apocalyptic predictions of Nostradamus, the Renaissance physician and astrologer. Noted the newsweekly Le Point in a cover story on the sudden French passion for bleak prophecies: "The man of this summer is not Mitterrand, but Nostradamus...
...Mary Oda, 61, now a San Fernando physician, was torn away from her first year at medical school. In the Manzanar, Calif., camp, dust whirled through gaps in the floor boards; nine people shared one cramped room, sleeping on bags filled with straw. Her family lost their farm, their equipment and one another. "We became separated during the evacuation and we never lived together as a family again...
...patients overnight. Says Dr. David Carlyle, medical director for MedStop's three clinics (one in Dallas, two in Houston): "We are basically geared to take care of one-shot problems." MedStop, one of the FEC pioneers, was started three years ago by Henry Harper Jr., 34, a Houston physician who decided while working in a hospital emergency room that there should be a low-cost alternative for people with simple medical needs. His clinics are open between 8 a.m. and 10 p.m. and staffed by four people: a receptionist, an X-ray technician, a nurse...
...platform plank, which declared that only people who believe in "traditional family values and the sanctity of the innocent human life" should be made judges. "We took the G.O.P. platform to be the Bible," he said. Carolyn Gerster, former president of the National Right to Life Committee and a physician from Scottsdale, Ariz., who knows O'Connor well, argued that the judge "is unqualified because she's proabortion. We're going to fight this one on the beaches." Also leading the charge from the right were Howard Phillips, head of the Conservative Caucus, and Richard Viguerie, publisher...
...parents, Pamela Schopp and Dr. Robert Mueller, allegedly decided at birth that the twins should be allowed to die. But, though receiving little food, they clung to life. After eight days the state took custody and then brought charges of attempted murder against the twins' parents and their physician. Said Illinois State Attorney Edward Litak: "These kids weren't denied a machine; they were denied ordinary sustenance." No matter how the prosecution turns out, someone, most likely a judge, faces a tough decision: Should the twins be separated, with the prospect of almost certain death...