Word: physicians
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...narrator and hero of The Cunning Man is Jonathan Hullah, M.D., who was present at St. Aidan's Church in Toronto when Father Ninian Hobbes collapsed and died. Also on the altar that day was Hullah's old friend from prep-school days, Father Charles Iredale, who shooed the physician away when he approached the stricken celebrant. "We were members of two rival priesthoods," Hullah muses, "he the Man of God and I the Man of Science...
...never before ascribed to Louganis. The big question hanging in the air last week was, What took him so long? And right below that were some others: Should he have told the International Olympic Committee in '88? Didn't he at least have a responsibility to tell the team physician, Dr. James Puffer, who stitched him up right after the accident? Why hadn't he come forward before and made himself a standard-bearer for the cause...
...allowed that she was "very moved" by the celebration. How does she feel? Like half the people over 85, she no longer hears very well. A broken hip five years ago left her unable to walk, and cataracts have robbed her of vision. (She has refused surgery, says her physician, Victor Lebre, because "she thinks it's normal at 120 not to see.") But there is no question that her wit is intact. Asked what kind of future she expects, Calment didn't miss a beat: "A very short one." As for her Methuselan achievement, "It's not impressive...
Rosenthal said that in his five years at UHS one of his greatest successes has been the implementation of a Primary Care Physician Program...
...physician and former colleague of Dr. Henry Foster today accused the surgeon general nominee of knowing about -- and endorsing -- an infamous 1969 government study that purposely left black men with syphilis untreated. The White House, which had dismissed as extremist the same accusation from anti-abortion groups, said the doctor's remarks "are all inconsistent with the facts." Dr. Luther McRae, former president of the Macon County (Ala.) Medical Society, said he'd testify under oath that Foster was told about the U.S. Public Health Service's Tuskegee project during a 1969 meeting. McRae says he remembers Foster, then...