Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...doctors are said to have advised removal of the Shah to a large U.S. medical center, or at least to Gorgas Hospital, a well-equipped American military hospital in the former Canal Zone. On his flight to Panama, Jordan and Cutler were accompanied by an as yet unnamed physician, selected by the White House. Nonetheless, an Administration spokesman insisted at week's end that there were no plans to admit the monarch to Gorgas...
...agree with Drs. Curran and Cass-cells [Feb. 4] that for physicians to be involved in administering lethal injections in cases of capital punishment "would constitute a cruel and unusual breach of medical ethics." The Hippocratic oath-already eroded by legalized abortion -would be further undercut, and the physician's historic mission as healer would again be compromised by such a death-dealing task...
...story: the hero falls for a sweet, dumbish blond (Candice Azzara) who runs the gift shop around the corner from his card shop. As for the gags, they are mindlessly farcical: an examination at the diet doctor's features standard jokes about hospital gowns and a nicotine-addicted physician who coughs in the patient's face...
DIED. Baroness Edith Summer skill, 78, feisty former chairman of Britain's Labor Party (1954-55) and lifelong women's rights advocate; of a heart attack; in London. A practicing physician, Summerskill won a seat in Parliament in 1938 and shocked fellow M.P.s by insisting on retaining her maiden name. Though she lost her campaign to have housewives paid for their domestic labors, she won legislative battles to ensure women equal status with their husbands in property rights and other financial matters...
...governors have matched Brown's record on the environment or affirmative action. In his first term, Brown named over 1000 women, 300 Hispanics, and 200 blacks to state posts. And Brown has shown imagination, proposing creative solutions conventional politicians would not even consider: he sponsored a plan to underwrite physician's malpractice insurance in exchange for a guarantee of medical services to the poor, and demanded the same $65-a-month pay increase for all civil servants, janitors and judges alike...