Word: physicians
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...dead at a hospital 2 1/2hours later. His collapse had been foreshadowed three months earlier, when he passed out during an April 29 playoff game against the Charlotte Hornets. Lewis checked in to Boston's New England Baptist Hospital. A "dream team" of 12 cardiologists assembled by the Celtics' physician, Arnold Scheller, made a diagnosis of cardiomyopathy, an abnormal stretching or thickening of the heart that can cause it to beat erratically. The condition can be fatal if, during strenuous exercise, the heart pounds so fast that no blood enters its chambers...
...friend told her several weeks ago that she had found a job in the Capitol, Lisa Foster said, "You are making the biggest mistake of your life." By then, it seems, Vince Foster had begun to see the move as a mistake as well. Foster had asked an Arkansas physician to send him an antidepressant, which arrived shortly before his death. While the drug may have been a step in the right direction, such medication, says Dr. Frederick Guggenheim, chairman of the University of Arkansas' department of psychiatry, can initially restore one's energy without lifting the despair...
...Celtics team physician, Dr. Arnold Scheller, also appeared to criticize the doctor during a press conference yesterday...
...prominence with a 46-day clinic blockade in 1991 that nearly paralyzed Wichita, Kansas. This year the organization has intensified its harder-edged tactics aimed at clinic employees: wanted posters of doctors, picket lines around their homes, and harassment of their children and neighbors. After one such target, physician David Gunn, was shot to death in March by a man connected with an unrelated but similar organization, "the pro-life movement was on the ropes a little bit," admits Operation Rescue's national spokesman, Patrick Mahoney. Nonetheless, Rescue continued a Melbourne "boot camp" that tutored recruits in everything from sidewalk...
This week, when the Senate opens hearings on the Elders nomination, the rest of the U.S. will find out that the 59-year-old Arkansas public-health director is still a little different. While she has the bedside manner of the white- coated physician, she has also been a verbal bomb thrower, trying to wake up Arkansas citizenry to the health crises in teenage pregnancy and AIDS by promoting sex education, birth control and freedom of choice on abortion. Just after her appointment in 1987, Elders was asked if school-based clinics would dispense contraceptives. She replied...