Word: specialist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics, Dr. Harry Goldsmith, a surgeon at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Hanover, N.H., admits his theory is based on hearsay and circumstantial evidence. In 1963, while a resident at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan, he attended a lecture by George Pack, a renowned cancer specialist. Pack told the audience that Dr. Frank Lahey, founder of Boston's famed Lahey Clinic, had confided to him that he had seen Roosevelt in early 1944 as a consultant and discovered that the President had a spreading tumor. Lahey had so informed Roosevelt, advising...
Rockefeller was clearly the man who alerted Administration officials to the Shah's medical problems. The banker has conceded that he helped arrange for the examination of the Shah in Mexico by Dr. Benjamin Kean, a New York specialist in tropical diseases. Rockefeller said that Kean "confirmed the gravity of the Shah's condition," and that "I insisted on having the results of that examination brought to the attention of the State Department." Some officials there were skeptical and suggested that a Government doctor should examine the Shah. Rockefeller then called Vance and expressed his anger...
...idea to get hold of the tests and analyze them was born in the brain of Dr. Robert Barendsen, a Far Eastern specialist in the USOE's Division of International Education. "In 1978 lots of Chinese students began appearing on our shores and we had to integrate them into our university system," he says. "Since we were just getting into the business of academic exchange with China and since these were the first nationally standardized tests since the Cultural Revolution we wanted to use them to get a feel for the kind of background college-level Chinese had in several...
...State Department, from the scenes of hostile confrontations between angry Americans and Iranian students in the U.S. Correspondent Peter Stoler, for many years TIME's Medicine writer, contributed an assessment of the Shah's medical problems. Associate Editor Burton Pines, the magazine's defense specialist, analyzed the limited U.S. military options in Iran...
Promised anonymity, the doctors were often startlingly frank. One, asked about a colleague who was also a close personal friend, replied: "He just isn't top rank." Remarked a specialist of another: "I wouldn't take my dog to that quack." But the doctors were generous in their praise of other colleagues. The result is a book that lists the names and addresses of top-ranked physicians in specialties ranging from allergies to vascular disease and-as a bonus-throws in the names and locations of leading hospitals, clinics and specialty centers...