Word: pharmacist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some medical doctors--regularly recommend such substances. According to the National Center for Homeopathy, Americans today are spending more than $165 million a year for the preparations, and sales are rising 20% to 25% annually. Says Gilbert Weise Sr. of Jacksonville, Florida: "When I advertise that I'm a pharmacist with homeopathic medicines, I can't keep customers out of my shop...
Still, all hospitals double-check the dosage of chemotherapy drugs that are given to a patient--and Dana-Farber is no exception. According to Gina Vild, a hospital spokeswoman, once the physician has written the order, Dana-Farber's rules require two pharmacists to verify it. "Pharmacist 1 is supposed to check it and, yes, is supposed to make the calculations himself," she told TIME. He then "gives it to Pharmacist 2, who looks at it and checks it" before sending the drug to the patient's room. When the order for Lehman came through, neither pharmacist caught the mistake...
...legal research on the Internet. But the majority say they were drawn to computers because, like Jack Fowler, 75, of Sun City West, Arizona, they simply didn't want to be left behind by progress. ``I couldn't keep up with my four-year- old grandson,'' says the retired pharmacist...
...national health care system with everyone thinking of me," says Rosenthal. "You've got to stop thinking about what is beat for me as a pharmacist, me as a nurse, me as a doctor...
...questions we would probably ask. When a biochemist states that the mind resides throughout the body, his eyebrows go up. "You don't mean that my big toe can feel sad, do you?" Moyers asks. The biochemist does, and what's more, her reasoning makes sense. When a Chinese pharmacist shows Moyers dried scorpions and lizards used to make curative tea, he wants to know how it works but also how it tastes. Answer: really awful...