Word: surgeon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shamelessly calculated to make kids and adults laugh, cry and walk away feeling entertained, not emotionally drained. Dayton's first film, made in 1973, was Where the Red Fern Grows, a tale of a boy and his two hunting dogs. Financed with the help of Dayton's surgeon father-in-law, Dr. George Doty, Fern cost $500,000 but already has grossed $8 million. It starred Dayton's 16-year-old nephew, Stewart Petersen. who has become a fixture in many D-D films, and James Whitmore. Next came Seven Alone, about orphans struggling to survive...
...imply that a collection of colored smears and slobberings and pieces of a pack-rat nest is art and its creator Robert Rauschenberg is an artist is akin to saying that what Jack the Ripper did was surgery and he was a surgeon...
...weeks later, disaster struck. As he was being helped by an aide to the bathroom, Hughes slipped and fell, fracturing his right femur. Hughes wanted to be operated on in his hotel room, but British Surgeon Walter Robinson insisted that he would perform the operation only in a hospital. Hughes relented?but he demanded to leave the clinic before the fracture had properly mended. Result: he refused even to try to walk again. From then on, his life, which had seemed on the upturn, took a tragic downward plunge. He was taken to the Xanadu Princess Hotel in Freeport, where...
...Honored for clinical research were Pharmacologists Raymond P. Ahlquist of the Medical College of Georgia and Dr. J.W. Black of University College of London. Their work led to the development of the drug propranolol (Inderal), which the Lasker jurors, headed by Heart Surgeon Michael DeBakey, hailed as one of the most important drugs of the century for its role in the treatment of high blood pressure (hypertension) and heart disease, the nation's No. 1 killer...
...book has drawn predictable cries of outrage from many doctors and led one physician-reviewer to note that Berman seems to be trying to do for his profession what Jaws did for ocean bathing, others have been more generous. After reading the corrosive chapter on his own specialty, Heart Surgeon Denton Cooley, himself a target of a few Berman barbs, commented: "A lot of fun." A plastic surgeon said that "anyone who is upset does not have a sense of humor." Rockland State Hospital's Dr. Nathan Kline, who is twitted along with other psychiatrists for pushing pills, perhaps...