Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tennis Partner thus becomes an anguished case history about a sadness too many will recognize: one person sets about destroying himself with addiction, and another gets addicted to trying to help him. The black hole is only deepened when, as Verghese writes, you subscribe to the physician's illusion that "if he attended to the pain of others, it would take care...
...reason why a lot of doctors have not installed e-mail on their office computers is that they fear being overwhelmed with messages. (Which they will be, unless they set ground rules, and their patients cooperate.) So if you're lucky enough to have direct access to your physician via computer, don't abuse the privilege--or we could all wind up playing telephone tag forever...
That did it. Struggling to get to the car, Lowery drove Sean to the office of Dr. Donald Kirk, a physician who serves many of Alpine's 470 year-round residents. She got there just in time; shortly after she walked into Kirk's waiting room, Lowery passed out on the floor...
...arrived in Alpine and set up shop in the town's city hall, an unlovely, one-room structure used for basketball games, karate classes, the occasional play and, when absolutely necessary, running the local government. The leader of the federal team was Thomas Breuer, a 37-year-old German physician in his second year as an EIS researcher. Working with him were Sonja Olsen and Malinda Kennedy...
...Mary Halm, 38, of Chillicothe, Ohio, developed a severe case of endometriosis, in which extraneous uterine tissue permeated her abdomen and left her writhing in pain. Several operations paid for by her HMO failed to remove all the offending tissue. Then her primary-care physician told Halm about a specialist in Atlanta who had developed a novel technique for treating the disease. The HMO refused to refer her, saying there were plenty of specialists in Ohio who could care for her. (Name one, she said. They wouldn't.) Halm appealed the decision for nine months with no response. Finally...