Word: physicians
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Though specialized techniques in neonatal intensive care have helped reduce deaths and disability among such infants, their problems remain acute. Besides respiratory distress syndrome, "preemies" are susceptible to heart problems, damage to the gastrointestinal tract, cerebral palsy and mental retardation. Says Rosanne's physician, Dr. Irwin Merkatz, an obstetrical perinatologist at MacDonald House-University Hospitals of Cleveland: "Preterm delivery is the single biggest problem in obstetrics today...
...Lear, Martha's husband, a physician and a man of intelligence and sensitivity. The pain that woke him was the onset of his first heart attack. Before Dr. Lear's death four years later, he was to suffer every indignity open to victims of cardiac disease. Worse, as a doctor he understood exactly what was happening to him, so that he was not even granted the anesthesia of ignorance...
...physician cannot heal himself. Helplessly he witnesses the indiscriminate dispensing of sleeping pills in order to give the house staff an easier night, the neglect of infections, the imperious commands made by the vertical to the horizontal. His exhausted wish is for "a rule that every doctor must spend one week a year in a hospital bed. That would change things in a hurry...
...licensed pharmacist, not a printed insert, is the best source of drug information for consumers. He can sense how much an individual needs to know about his medication, can help the patient monitor his progress and act as an effective link between patient and physician...
...recent report of the National Research Council (NRC) showing that average Americans do not benefit from restricting cholesterol and fat intake except to maintain normal body weight could be dangerous to the public, according to a Medical School physician...