Word: specialist
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...said that he was surprised when theUniversity did not convene an ad hoc committee toreview Iwasaki, a specialist in advanced Japaneselanguage and pre-modern Japanese literature, fortenure...
...stirrups, a tactic that is being tried in a few medical schools. "What I'm talking about is a rigorous exposure to the female perspective on life and males, how vulnerable they feel in the world, not just in the doctor's office," explains Smith. "A woman's specialist needs to go beyond anatomy, beyond having babies and periods. He or she needs to be an expert in female sexuality, social interaction, cultural values, anxieties and fears, the total psychological makeup of being a woman." They would also be trained in how such ailments as heart disease and cancer differ...
Smith believes that the new woman's specialist should concentrate almost exclusively on preventive and primary care. "The ideal setup would be female clinics, overseen by doctors but staffed by nurses and other non-M.D. professionals," he says. Routine prenatal and pregnancy care, now the purview of the gynecologist-obstetrician, would be handled by midwives, while high- risk pregnancies and deliveries would be assigned to the appropriate specialists...
...SPECIALIST IN INTERNAL MEDICINE, DR. HOWard Dean knows that the quality of care soars when patient and physician trust each other. As Governor of Vermont -- and the only Governor in the Union who is a doctor -- Dean also knows that trust has to be earned. So the Governor knew he had his work cut out for him when he set out to persuade insurance companies, physicians and increasingly savvy medical consumers all to agree on a health-care reform plan. Last week Dean succeeded. With the blessings of the state legislature, the Vermont Medical Society, and Blue Cross and Blue...
...comparatively small size of the Los Angeles police force made matters worse. "Let's forget Chief Gates. You should talk about the number of < police," argues Rex Applegate, a retired Army lieutenant colonel and a leading riot-control specialist. "L.A. has about 8,000. New York City can field 30,000 officers and can flood a riot with blue uniforms." This manpower shortage was compounded when police commanders failed to declare a tactical alert soon enough, which would have deployed additional officers to the initial trouble spots...