Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...medical assistants. Among the recent hires was Pauline Flores, 29, a single mother of five who began work for a Silicon Valley pediatrician in May after seven months of medical training (cost: nearly $6,500). Today Flores earns $8.75 an hour answering phones, drawing blood, doing labwork and assisting physician Katherine Wong. "God, it feels good," Flores says of her job. "I wake up in the morning and want to come to work...
...Wing Tong, a California physician, writes in another Web article, "When magnets are placed on the body, the positive and negative ions in the blood separate, physically pushing the walls of the blood vessels apart, thereby increasing blood flow to that area...
...Electric workers and the officer were treated for minor smoke inhalation and released early yesterday evening, but one worker who suffered second and third degree burns covering 30 percent of his body was transferred to the burn unit, said Eric Legome, the attending physician in the MGH emergency room...
...following an extraordinary board meeting held late into the previous night, when directors wrapped up the terms of the resignations of chairman and CEO Richard Scott, 45, Columbia's visionary founder, and president David Vandewater, 46. The big winner was new chairman and CEO Thomas Frist Jr., 58, a physician whose family founded HCA before Columbia acquired...
...doctors, homocysteine is nothing new. As long ago as 1969, Harvard physician Kilmer McCully--now with the Veterans Administration Hospital in Providence, R.I.--was studying the unusual case of an eight-year-old boy who had died of a stroke. McCully found that the boy's bloodstream was fairly awash in excess homocysteine and that his arteries had the sclerotic look of an elderly...