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DIED. ROGER VIVIER, 90, innovative shoe designer for the unsurpassingly well heeled; in Toulouse, France. Vivier, creator of the stiletto heel, won devotees including Marlene Dietrich and Queen Elizabeth II, for whom he designed gold coronation sandals...
Amenities: Multilingual concierge staff: complimentary morning newspaper, valet parking, baby-sitting, overnight complimentary shoe shine, laundry and "secretarial services...
...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...