Word: physicians
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...will vote. Earlier, a stinging New York Times editorial called the pick "badly bungled" and one that should "die quickly." The powerful American Medical Association, which speaks for about 300,000 U.S. doctors, strongly supported Foster today, though its endorsement was seen more as an obligatory defense of a physician's right to practice ethical medicine than a political stand in behalf of the Foster nomination. For his part, Foster told a group of medical students at George Washington University today: "I am standing strong." While the Clinton Administration is expected to continue to fight for Foster, a source close...
DIED. MIGUEL TORGA, 87, Portugal's most admired contemporary writer; in Coimbra. A practicing physician for most of his life despite his fame as a man of letters, Torga was a liberal socialist, atheist and nonconformist. He spent six months in the dungeons of Portuguese dictator Antonio Salazar at the request of Francisco Franco, who was excoriated in Torga's A Criacao do Mundo (1939), which contained a description of post-civil war Spain. In 1941 Torga began his magnum opus Diario, 16 volumes of reflections on his life and times. ``I fought against age, I fought against...
...This was an incredibly tragic story, a young couple who had just married. I thought if it could bring any solace to the wife, it would be a little ray of sunshine in the midst of tragedy." --Dr. Craig Niederberger, a Chicago physician, referring to his recent extraction of sperm from the corpse of a newlywed man killed in a car crash...
...March 10, 1993, in Pensacola, Florida, Michael Griffin, a "deeply religious" man, shot physician David Gunn three times in the back. Gunn was on his way into a health care facility where he offered reproductive services, including abortion. The response of the anti-choice (they ironically call themselves "pro-life") community? Operation Rescue's Randall Terry called the killing of Dr. Gunn "an inappropriate, repulsive act." The U.S. Catholic Conference said the "violence of the killing makes a mockery of the pro-life cause...
...This increasingly violent harassment is jeopardizing the availability of comprehensive reproductive health care," Lieberman said. "In 83 percent of counties in the United States there is not a single physician providing abortion services...