Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thought to be dead at birth in Málaga on Oct. 25, 1881. Then his uncle Salvador Ruiz, a celebrated Spanish physician who had delivered the boy, calmly puffed cigar smoke up the baby's nose, provoking howls of protest. Thus did Picasso embark on 91 years of rugged life...
...Segal has something more imaginative in mind. In 1968 Husband Bob attended a conference in the south of France. The country was gripped by unrest, and he managed to get his head in the way of a policeman's cosh. First aid was administered by a beautiful female physician who then prescribed house calls. What patient could resist such doctor's orders...
...patients frequently feel they are falling into a drug Wonderland. All too often the powerful pills and potions prescribed by doctors come with nothing more than the pharmacist's typed label bearing the drug's name and the unedifying command: "Take as directed." Even if the physician has provided added information in his office, it may be woefully inadequate. Given hurriedly, short on detail, with possible harmful consequences glossed over or even omitted, the instructions frequently seem to be following the hoary 16th century precept of England's Royal College of Physicians: "Let no one teach...
...brisk February day shortly thereafter, Howard Hunt and I had lunch with a physician retired from CIA, an expert on what Hunt called "the unorthodox application of medical and chemical knowledge." Hunt introduced me under my operational alias, "George Leonard." We lunched in the Hay Adams Hotel, just across Lafayette Park from the White House. The purpose of the luncheon, Hunt had explained to me previously, was to prepare, for the approval of Hunt's "principal," a plan to stop columnist Jack Anderson. Hunt and I often used the term "my principal" rather than identify our superiors...
...three divers, Bud, Shelton, a physician's assistant at Duke, William Bell, a fourth-year medical student, and Stephen Porter, a commercial diver from Houston received hundreds of letters and telegrams congratulating them on their achievement...