Word: shoes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Manish Shah is trying to figure out why Thelma Shoe's nose keeps bleeding. At least once or twice a week, the 73-year-old has been getting nosebleeds that last up to an hour. Shoe's no stranger to the clinic; she has emphysema, cirrhosis of the liver (from medication she took for tuberculosis), and has already had heart-bypass surgery...
...Shoe was Shah's first patient at Duke's outpatient clinics three years ago, when he was a first-year resident, and the two have established a comfortable rapport. "Oww, that hurts!" she says, wincing as he inserts an otoscope into each nostril. "That hurts? I'm not even touching you," he counters as he peers into her nose. Shah suspects that the bleeds are triggered by her dry nasal cavities and recommends an over-the-counter nasal saline spray, available at any drugstore. He spends a few more minutes chatting with Shoe, then reminds her to return...
This is Shah's classroom, and patients like Shoe are his textbooks. Now in his last year of residency in internal medicine, he spends two afternoons each week at the clinic, seeing patients under the supervision of an attending physician who must approve every medical decision he makes. Only the short length of his white coat betrays his status as a doctor-in-training--an M.D. after four years of medical school, he examines patients, writes prescriptions, orders tests and fills out insurance forms...
Though he "wasn't going to become a baker," Tahmili says that opinion changed when his cousin pointed out an old shoe repair shop in Watertown...
...saying some key lines about what it's like to be the arthropodic equivalent of Adam and Eve, Z and Princes Bala (voiced by Sharon Stone) get captured in a giant dewdrop and spend more time than is interesting interred in gum on the bottom of some kid's shoe (allowing unusual camera angles that will really excite the graphics techies.) These shots are "cool," but do make it seem like an Imax documentary on the "lives of an ant" has been artlessly spliced into a generic Disney "plebian saves princess" cartoon...