Word: physicians
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Richard L. Shames '67 is a family practice physician. He focuses on women's issues in health care...
...visions of the future still mixed science with superstition, as was demonstrated by Nostradamus. A successful physician in 16th century France (for years he ministered to victims of the plague), he managed to believe both in scientific Copernican astronomy and in astrology. Eventually he turned to the occult. In seven volumes he foretold "the future events of the entire world" (according to his epitaph). In one of his obscure quatrains, he prophesied that in 1999, "from the sky there will come a great King of terror." Nobody knows what that was supposed to mean, but in recent decades many would...
...physician at a severely understaffed New York City hospital, her days consisted of seeing patients, patients and more patients. She loved her work and her patients loved...
...Nevertheless, the mission has made one great new discovery: "It turns out you can actually snore in space," announced astronaut-physician Dave Williams. How do we know? Because, Williams admitted sheepishly, "I managed to make those noises myself." Never mind the squeaking -- in space, everyone can hear you snore...
...Western medicine, as powerful as it is, simply doesn't work very well for chronic illness," said keynote speaker James S. Gordon '62, a physician and chair of the Program Advisory Council at the National Institute of Health's Office of Alternative Medicine...