Word: urologists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...causes of prostate cancer are unknown, but doctors have suspected for years that the disease is linked to nutrition. "There are some studies implicating diet, and there are good studies implicating fat in the diet," said urologist Dr. Kenneth I. Wishnow, associate professor of surgery at the Medical School...
...Being a medical doctor. People say, "Well you're just a pathologist." My specialty is death. And if not a pathologist, who? Would you have a pediatrician do it? Or let's get more absurd. What if I was a urologist? Could I help only men end their lives...
That kind of restraint will not be easy. Over the past several decades, much of American medical practice and public expectation has been geared toward the idea that if someone has cancer, it should be treated without delay, observes Dr. Gerald Chodak, a urologist at the University of Chicago. But as blood tests and biopsies detect ever smaller cancers, physicians and patients will have to make more sophisticated decisions about treatment...
Though the greatest suffering is among the poor, visiting doctors were shocked to see the reduced state of their own, mostly middle-class relatives, who must also scrounge for clean water and make do with rationed flour that is often cut with sawdust. "The children looked thinner," noted Chicago urologist Emil Totonchi, who also judged his brother, a Baghdad physician, to be "clinically depressed." Said Totonchi: "When I looked into the faces of my relatives, I saw there was something major lacking. I didn't see much of life or hope -- just bare existence projected so strongly...