Word: physicians
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Chickering left behind his wife Audrey and two sons, Sherman, now a California editor, and William H. III (born after his father's death), a Wisconsin physician, as well as an indelible impression on all those he had touched. After the war, the Navy named a movie theater on the Yokosuka base after him. When senior editor Barrett Seaman heard the story this week, he said, "I went to school with a William Henry Chickering. I'll bet he was this man's son." Barry made a telephone call, and the past opened up briefly for our generation working...
...issues of greed over issues of public safety.' " The cozy pattern of self-regulation among some professional groups, like doctors, only compounds the litigation problem. Legal critic Charles Peters, the editor of the Washington Monthly, argues that this means "there is no effective discipline for misconduct by a physician other than the malpractice suit...
...into Casolaro's death, local police took his body to a funeral parlor. The body was immediately embalmed -- though police had not reached his family to get permission. That only heightened his family's suspicions. "I don't think Danny was depressed," insists his brother Anthony, an Arlington, Va., physician, who says Casolaro was convinced that he had succeeded in tying the Inslaw case into "the Octopus." "My sense was that he was very excited...
...mother patiently explains, Christa was only 14, and even then she was absolutely devastated by the news. "When Christa was just a little girl," recalls Arlette, "all she could talk about was becoming a mother." Two years later, during a visit to the Mayo Clinic, Arlette observed to a physician who examined her daughter, "I wish you could transplant my uterus because I certainly have no use for it anymore." The doctor looked at her curiously. "He asked me how old I was. I said I was 36, which I was at the time. Suddenly it was like a light...
...each case, the women recount, when it was all over, they took a hard, bruised look at their situation and decided to keep silent. "There weren't any other witnesses, and I felt that it wouldn't be believed," says one, who is now a physician. Why not? "Because I know how powerful his family is, and he does seem to be such an upstanding student." But when they read about the Palm Beach case, they all reconsidered...