Word: doctoral
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...therapeutic concept of punitive damages." His client this tune was Wilfred Fayard, 58, a sheet metal worker, who had suffered a back injury while carrying a bathtub. Fayard lost his disability benefits because his injury was considered by his insurance company to be "nonconfining." That was because Fayard, on doctor's orders, managed to walk a few hundred yards every day for exercise. At the trial, a former claims adjuster for Fayard's insurers, Pennsylvania Life, testified that adjusters were under a quota to "close," or terminate, half their customers' claims. The jury awarded Fayard...
Perhaps Adams' most striking record of nature in full terribilità is his nose. It was broken in the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, when he was four. An aftershock tumbled him, face first, into a brick wall. "The family doctor said, 'Fix it when he matures,' " Adams chuckles. "But of course I never did mature. So I still have the nose...
...with thinning dark hair, sits in the doctor's chair, his scalp red, scarred, infected. Dermatologist Marvin Lepaw and an aide hover over him. Slowly, methodically, using magnifying glass and tweezers, they pluck out one hair after another. The agonizing scene in Lepaw's Hicksville, N.Y., office is not an isolated incident. Doctors round the country are now trying to undo the dangerous fallout from yet another quack treatment for baldness: the implanting of synthetic fibers into the scalp...
...profit for the store. Most shoppers would probably find the supershopping routine very exhausting. Samtur spends five hours a week clipping coupons, filing cents-off labels and mailing out refund requests, which average 100 a month. She tears labels while watching TV; when she takes her children to the doctor, she cuts coupons from the magazines in the waiting room...
Nurses are no longer content to be the doctor's handmaiden...