Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...From a physician's standpoint, Duke epitomizes current U.S. health-care philosophy: compassion and heroism coupled with financial altruism. But curing medical problems doesn't hinge on the extent of the treatment; it depends on the extent of the disease. Prevention doesn't simply mean administering vitamins to the young; it requires eliminating environmental factors conducive to disease, such as smoking, drugs, improper diet and pollution. Society has become inured to its harmful behavior. This results in the overutilization of medical resources and ever growing expenses, with doctors and hospitals serving as convenient scapegoats. DONALD H. RUDICK, M.D. St. Marys...
...dealing with gut-level emotions--I mean, my God, insinuating that this kid is going to be harmed by us being able to marry? We've got to fight fire with fire: whack 'em back with a f______ abortion ad." They have that ad. It features a female physician looking as concerned as Rosehill's son did. "We need to stop them before they get to a woman's right to choose," the doctor says. The rather strained argument seems to be that if voters allow the legislature control over court decisions regarding marriage, foes of abortion rights could seek...
...physician, he said, navigates within the framework of science, but at the same time is in touch with mystery, the complex dimensions of experience that are not readily comprehended...
Groopman said he has seen how life offers, even in the very last moments, a kind of healing of the spirit. The role of the physician, he said, is thus clearly grounded in a spiritual dimension, along with a scientific...
...foot-6-inch writer and physician, who said he wakes up at 4:30 a.m. every morning, added that he recharges himself in other facets of his life--by spending time with family, swimming or biking and writing...