Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Physician Mary Ann Peberdy of the Medical College of Virginia conducted a survey of 93 doctors' offices to determine how many of them had a heart defibrillator on hand. The answer turned out to be not many. Of the 51 offices that responded, only six had bothered to purchase the $3,500 piece of equipment, and only three had a nurse on staff trained in cardiac life support. By contrast, Las Vegas casinos--rarely regarded as oases of good health--are increasingly making it a point to have defibrillators and medical teams on-site at all times...
...referred to a primary care physician who promptly decides to reuse a dirty scalpel to remove the unsightly growth...
...historical figure, Nostradamus cannot help but fascinate. Born Michel de Nostredame in 1503 in St. Remy, Provence, to a family of converted Jews, Nostradamus achieved celebrity as a physician long before his foray into prophesy. After excelling as a medical student at Montpelier, he enjoyed unprecedented success in treating the 1546 charbon, the Black Death. Always the iconoclast, he achieved his results by rejecting traditional treatments such as bleeding and, instead, stressing hygiene and diet, and giving his patients lozenges made of rose petals and other herbs (really, vitamin C). He seems truly to have been ahead of his time...
Today's impending decision on whether to legalize physician-assisted suicide in Oregon and this past weekend's conference at the Science Center on euthanasia have brought to light the national debate on the right...
...addition, he said that he believes "that most objections to physician aid in dying are based upon religious injunctions...