Word: doctoral
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...never letting work get in the way of your participation. He tells stories of flying home to Chicago one night and flying back the next morning in time for work, all so he could attend his daughter's school performance. He listens in to parent-teacher conferences and doctor visits over the speakerphone. The implication is that, if you are willing to go to extraordinary lengths to succeed in your career, why wouldn't you apply that kind of motivation to your family life...
...study's authors said poor doctor-patient communication is probably largely to blame for the discrepancy...
...Sylvia's doctor father sternly forbids contact between them; it endangers his hard-won position. Ben's father Nate (Joe Mantegna) is distractedly against it too, though most of his attention is focused on his two troubled businesses--a failing burlesque house and a numbers racket threatened by an obstreperous black man named Little Melvin (Orlando Jones), who portends the violent, irrational '60s, just a historical nanosecond away...
...nonsteroidal anti-inflammatories may be linked to a severe form of heartburn called gastroesophageal-reflux disorder, or GERD. Researchers found that the chances of getting GERD doubled among 12,500 Medicaid patients who took the painkillers routinely. Before starting a regimen of aspirin or the like, check with your doctor...
...break seems like a reasonable thing to do. Equally reasonable is the 17 hours of continuous recovery sleep I need during that first day back home. My mother, of course, sees this extended rest as a clear indication that I have mono and insists that I go to the doctor...