Word: physician
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dukakis, the son of a physician, said he intends to make sure that when Americans get sick, "the first question they hear will be the question my father used to ask--the question that doctors and nurses ask every day--not `how can you pay?' but `where does it hurt...
...mission in which they performed routine experiments with the two Mir cosmonauts, who are spending a year in space. Lyakhov, 47, and Mohmand, 29, an Afghan pilot, had returned to the two-stage Soyuz capsule for the three-hour trip back to the Soviet Union, leaving Physician Valeri Polyakov behind to continue monitoring the health of the station crew...
Although Dame Cicely is a symbol of caring medicine to doctors and nurses around the world, today she is more administrator than practicing physician. Three years ago, she handed over the job of medical director to Dr. Tom West, 58, her close friend of many years, and became chairman of the hospice's management council. She continues, though, to keep a firm hand on her 62-bed hospice, doing weekend medical duty once a month, regularly dropping by to chat with patients and dispensing advice to doctors...
...death rate rose among widowed and divorced parents who had lost a son, suggesting that support from a spouse lessens grief-related stress. "Rather than emphasize the disruptive power of stress," wrote Drs. Malcolm Rogers and Peter Reich of the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, "the physician may do better to emphasize human resilience and the power of life...
...wanted to be a physician but abandoned this ambition to take over his father's framing shop in Baltimore. Maggie gave up the chance to go to college to work at the nearby Silver Threads Nursing Home, where she remains a geriatric nursing assistant. He, quietly frustrated by knowing all there is to know about cutting 45 degrees angles in strips of wood, plays solitaire for relief. Maggie, the care giver, has found her niche propping the pillows and emptying the bedpans of the elderly. She is never bored...