Word: physicians
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Although the state medical board expressed "concerns" about the conduct of both doctors, the board concluded that the neither physician's conduct "constitutes a violation of statute or regulation," according to the written record of the board's March 11 decision...
...publicly disputing the Warren Commission's finding that Oswald was the lone assassin. But he is adamant that the head wound suffered by the President came from the front of the motorcade, thus making it impossible for Oswald to have murdered Kennedy from a sixth-floor rear perch. The physician says it is clear that "someone had tampered with the body" during its extralegal transfer from Texas to the autopsy room at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland, presumably to support a single-gunman scenario. The injuries shown on autopsy photos, Crenshaw says, "are not the same wounds...
...Massachusetts Medical Society placed Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry Bernard S. Levy on leave as director of its physician health committee last week pending an investigation into the charges, according to The Boston Globe...
...doesn't surprise me at all. The families of Alzheimer's patients sometimes just give up in despair." Such families have been known to drop their elderly charges off at hospital emergency rooms and then disappear. "It happens here probably once a month," says University of Chicago emergency- room physician Dr. Cai Glushak. "Before you can turn around, the person who registered the patient has gone. They've left no phone number, no address...
...widespread is the phenomenon of abandoned elders? The evidence is mostly anecdotal, and reliable statistics are elusive. Dr. Robert Anzinger, a past president of the American College of Emergency Physicians, estimates that between 100,000 and 200,000 such individuals show up in hospital emergency rooms every year. "These are desperate acts," says Dr. Ellen Taliaferro, an emergency-room physician at San Francisco General Hospital, "committed by desperate people...