Word: physician
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year-old widower with a grown son, Scheel in July married an attractive Munich physician who will be a welcome addition to Bonn's diplomatic whirl. For the easygoing Scheel, however, his new eminence imposes a few regrettable strictures. Not the least of them is that he can no longer wear loud sports jackets or whiz about Bonn in his zippy BMW 2500 sedan ("the businessman's sports car"). Even a foe of pretension must allow himself to be chauffeured in a stately black Mercedes if he also happens to be West Germany's Foreign Minister...
...like what they are doing, but we will not join them in terms of calling ourselves normal. We are giving up our heritage, our very lives. We know how we suffer. Only you will know how we suffer, because we will tell only you how we suffer." As a physician, I am bothered by this, because I deal with the suffering of human beings...
...three witches are historical figures: Anne de Chantraine, a peddler's moony daughter, is burned at 17 in Liège; Charles Poirot, a physician who falls in love with a monstrously pious lady invalid and is burned after she retreats from him into hysteria and screams that he has possessed her; Jeanne Harvilliers, a gypsy's granddaughter filled with loathing for the lead-souled villagers who come to her for love charms and poisons. The book's flat prose is curiously eloquent. "She was on the side of the executioners," the account says of a young...
...Harvard sophomore fell 70 feet to his death from an Amherst College dormitory late Saturday night. Before losing consciousness, he reputedly told the examining physician he had taken LSD earlier in the evening...
...call for MIST 24 hours a day, seven days a week while they are on the duty roster, these physicians provide a unique program. It is the only hospital consulting service in the U.S. that is available to nonaffiliated physicians without cost. "It brings medical service right into the physician's office," says Sheehy. "Nowhere else can a doctor call a medical center free of charge and receive personal answers to his questions from some of the most highly qualified specialists in the nation...