Word: physicians
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...telephone at the hospital to keep the line open. Secretary of State Alexander Haig called Baker on another phone to ask about the shooting. "I will keep you advised," said Baker. Two minutes later, Deaver was on the hospital phone, speaking in somber tones. Then Reagan's personal physician, Dr. Daniel Ruge, came on to deliver the bad news: the President had been hit after...
...Reagan, the old man of the bunch, had somehow stayed together. The White House physician, Dr. Daniel Ruge, put it this way three days before the shooting: "What can I tell a man who is 70 and in better shape than...
...offers yet another possibility. Writing in the Journal of the American Medical Association, he suggests Van Gogh suffered from unintentional digitalis poisoning. Lee's evidence is tenable although admittedly circumstantial. Digitalis, a heart stimulant, was a treatment for epilepsy in the late 1800s. In two portraits of his physician, Van Gogh included the flowers of the foxglove plant, which is the source of digitalis. Most significant, halos and predominance of the color yellow-prevalent in his late paintings-are characteristic of the visual disturbances that accompany digitalis intoxication...
...Pentagon has kept the public "psychically numb" to the dangers of nuclear warfarc, Caldicott, an Australian-born physician, said...
...belief that humanity had set limits to the degradation and persecution of one's fellow man." Ghetto Diary by Janusz Korczak (191 pages; $8.95) is the most disturbing of the library volumes. Of the hundreds of memorial stones at Treblinka, only one bears a name: Korczak, a physician, author and head of an orphanage, who, given a chance to escape, chose to accompany his little charges to the gas chambers. The Holocaust Library also tells more heartening tales. Their Brothers' Keepers by Philip Friedman (232 pages; $4.95, paperback) celebrates the Christians who helped thousands of Jews escape because...