Word: specialist
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Verghese arrived in small-town Appalachia two months later as an infectious- disease specialist, and soon found himself the de facto expert on the new plague. His main enemies were ignorance and prejudice, his own and other people's: he met transcriptionists who would run away so as not to have to type up his examinations of gay patients, and dentists who would refuse to see unmarried men. In the tradition of the best doctor-writers, from Somerset Maugham to Ethan Canin, Verghese took it all down with a fine mix of compassion and precision, understanding not only...
...ends of the spectrum in Africa today," says Professor Crawford Young, Africa specialist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, "the most depressing in Rwanda and the most hopeful in South Africa." In South Africa optimists find a jubilant example of the victory of democracy that the end of the cold war has ushered in. But out of Rwanda come warnings about how other struggles may unfold in this next dangerous generation...
Peter J. Kreitchet, a comic book specialist at the store, says 83 packs have been sold during the first week. He terms that figure "respectable...
...doctor asks his patient to say" Aahh" as he examines her throat. What comes out is a perfect note that fills the room. The patient is a professional singer, and the doctor a specialist, with an eye for details and an ear of music...
...third doubles contest saw the return of Crimson senior doubles specialist Adam Meister to the starting line-up. Meister, who had been sidelined with a shoulder injury, teamed up with freshman Josh Hausman to manhandle their West Point counterparts...