Word: physicians
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...want physician-assisted suicide, you'll need to move to Oregon, the only state in which doctors may legally administer a lethal dose of medication. Hawaii considers legalizing it next year...
Just as the title doctor becomes part of a physician's name, so the role becomes part of his identity. Advanced esophageal cancer, diagnosed three years ago, forced oncologist Dan Frimmer to retire at age 58. The cancer doctor had become a cancer patient, but 25 years of medical practice prevented him from viewing himself as anything but a healer. "Of what value am I to people now?" he asked himself after his first round of chemotherapy and radiation, then answered his own question: "I could advise people from a different point of view--from the other side...
...listened to him because he was a physician. We doctors somehow feel that the 'M.D.' protects us. It hit us that doctors die too," says Dr. Lauren Shaiova, who treated Frimmer for pain and arranged to have him speak at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City. Frimmer was his own best end-of-life student. He filled out an advance directive, updated his will, organized his finances, assigned power of attorney, sold off some of his photographic equipment--and allowed his wife Debbie to do something he'd previously resisted: "I don't like animals, but when...
...parade. At age 12, she accompanies her mother to a harsh re-education camp. The time is the late '60s, when the born-again Communists of the Cultural Revolution strive to out-Orwell their Orwellian betters. Lian's mother, a university professor, and father, a physician, are just the sort of professionals to be singled...
Know your ABC's (and D's): any moles on your skin that are Asymmetric, have an irregular Border, change in Color or have a Diameter greater than 1/4 in. (6 mm) should be checked immediately by a physician. (Melanomas often grow within a matter of a few months.) Most important, if you are ever diagnosed with a malignant melanoma, follow McCain's example and keep those doctors' appointments. Since his 1993 melanoma, McCain has had his skin checked every three to four months for new cancers. It could very well turn out that he owes his life to that...