Word: physician
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...report's authors concluded that half of those who drop out of medical school are in good academic standing but are clinically depressed. "Those most likely to experience depression are those who are warm, outgoing, caring--characteristics important for a physician," said Rush Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry David C. Clark, a co-author of the study...
...Frank Pinto, a U.S. Navy physician stationed at the submarine base in Groton, Conn., shopping in Flemington is a kind of pre-emptive strike against overpaying. He strides through the Van Heusen outlet, selecting sport shirts from neat stacks. "I planned to stop off here on a trip to Philadelphia," he says, "just to avoid the ungodly markups on clothing at the regular stores...
...positives at a rate of 2% to 3%. Athletes' understanding of how to beat the tests by using either extra drugs that mask the performance-enhancing ones or by getting off the stuff in time to clear their systems accounts for the difference. Says Dr. Bertram Zarins, a team physician for the New England Patriots and Boston Bruins: "Athletes are always a step ahead of any testing program...
BOSTON--The pay of some highly specialized surgeon will drop sharply while internists and others on the front lines of medicine will earn more under a proposed new physician fee structure drawn up for Congress, its author says...
Meanwhile, entrepreneurs eager to profit from the epidemic have rushed to market with all sorts of programs designed to protect against viruses. In , advertising that frightens more than it informs, they flog products with names like Flu Shot +, Vaccinate, Data Physician, Disk Defender, Antidote, Virus RX, Viru-Safe and Retro-V. "Do computer viruses really exist? You bet they do!" screams a press release for Disk Watcher 2.0, a product that supposedly prevents virus attacks. Another program, VirALARM, boasts a telling feature: it instructs an IBM PC's internal speaker to alert users to the presence of a viral intruder...