Word: physicians
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...hundreds of languages and cultures that flourish in Africa are we to call our own? What, for example are African Americans raised in the Christian faith to make of religious and cultural traditions such as female circumcision, which is still widely practiced in Africa? I once met a Kikuyu physician in Kenya, who had been educated in London. He deplored the health hazards posed by performing the ritualistic mutilation with unsterilized knives on dusty ceremonial grounds. So when his daughter came of age, he arranged for the operation to be done in a modern hospital -- because without it she could...
...weeks ago, Allen visited Farrow's family in her Connecticut home. Shortly thereafter, Farrow talked with Dylan, and recorded the conversations ! on videotape, to determine whether the child had been abused. Farrow took Dylan to a physician, who, obliged by Connecticut law to do so, reported the claim of abuse to the police, and Allen was a candidate for questioning. Within a week he filed for custody of his three children. And early last week he publicly announced his love for Soon-Yi. In a phrase echoing his declaration about Farrow, he said Soon-Yi "has and continues to turn...
...Powell developed an inoperable tumor that attacked his spinal cord and left him paralyzed from the waist down. Though the case seemed terminal, he was saved by an innovative doctor. Oregon Medicaid director Jean Thorne disputes Powell's charge. His condition would have been covered, she says, provided a physician could be found who considered it treatable...
...Vienna, and the fog is nearly as thick as Schlag on the strudels. Friedrich Nietzsche and Dr. Joseph Breuer, an early associate of Freud's, are striking an odd bargain. The physician will try to cure his patient's migraine attacks; the philosopher will treat the doctor's deep- rooted angst. Soon their roles reverse: healer becomes sufferer and, voila!, the psychoanalytic revolution begins. In WHEN NIETZSCHE WEPT (Basic Books; $20), psychiatrist Irvin D. Yalom imagines an encounter between two < real people who never met. The novel is strewn with italic sentences to highlight his characters' head-smacking insights. Still...
...stony-faced George Bush struggled through a week of plunging approval ratings, sluggish economic-growth figures and angry sniping from his fellow Republicans, his personal physician, Dr. Burton Lee, mused on the fierce "predatory" impulses that politicians and journalists share with beasts of the jungle. "The second somebody looks like he's on the ropes," Lee said, mixing metaphors, "the hyenas come circling and howling around him. Then some people say, 'Oh my, he doesn't look well...