Word: pulmonologist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think I picked up the free-stuff habit from my childhood in a medical family. Pharmaceutical companies were constantly giving my dad, a pulmonologist, free samples and promotional gifts. As a consequence, to this day I have trouble paying for drugs; I forget to buy Sudafed, thinking we have lots at home. Too bad home is back in DC. For what it would cost to mail the free Sudafed samples from my parents' closet, I've learned to utilize the CVS in the Square...
...change worked. Paul's family moved to Rhodesia, where he regained his health. Later he attended medical school in Ireland, and, motivated by his childhood illness, became a pulmonologist and a leading asthma expert. "I wish I could speak to that Dublin physician now. He had great insight," says O'Byrne, who has learned that his early asthma attacks were allergic reactions to dust mites, which thrive in damp conditions...
...pulmonologist added that he expects the FDA to approve the drug within a year. More than 1100 patients have been tested in clinical trials to date. When that number doubles, Drazen said, the drug will likely be approved for general...