Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...past nine years, Glickman has been physician-in-chief and chair of the department of medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, a Harvard-affiliated hospital...
...Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, its trustees and the Dean of Harvard Medical School will be determining the process of recruiting a new physician-in-chief over the coming few weeks," said Dr. Mitchell T. Rabkin, CEO of Caregroup, the hospital's parent organization, in a statement...
...more recent step has been to explore the medical properties of herbs and botanical extracts. Although modern Western medicine has only recently come to embrace the medicinal potential of herbs and botanical extracts, the fifth century Greek physician Hippocrates, considered the father of Western medicine, was the first to suggest this possibility. Hippocrates believed deeply in the healing power of nature. A strong advocate of the restorative powers of natural herbs, he once wrote, "Nature is the physician of diseases." This historical context attests to the long-term appeal alternative medical theory has had even to traditional biomedicine...
...contraception, even by married couples. Extended to unmarried couples only in 1972, this constitutionally guaranteed right to privacy would become as important to women's equality as the vote. In 1973 the right to privacy was extended to the abortion decision of a woman and her physician, thus making abortion a safe and legal alternative--unlike the $5 illegal butcheries of Sanger...
...their closely guarded compound that the others eventually left him as the pool's sole user. He swam in the often stormy ocean off the north China coast, when the Communist Party leadership gathered there for its annual conferences. And, despite the pleadings of his security guards and his physician, he swam in the heavily polluted rivers of south China, drifting miles downstream with the current, head back, stomach in the air, hands and legs barely moving, unfazed by the globs of human waste gliding gently past. "Maybe you're afraid of sinking," he would chide his companions if they...