Word: physician
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...JOHN: IN A SENTIMENTAL MOOD (Warner Bros.). When jazz meets up with rhythm and blues, it's usually less a shoot-out than a sellout: one or the other gets sold short. Dr. John, a surgical master at the piano and a good, gruff vocalizer, is one physician with a solid prescription to do both styles right -- and proud...
...determine what medical treatment they receive? Surprisingly, the answer is yes. "There is an underlying assumption that two doctors in two different places will prescribe the same treatment," says Dr. Phil Caper, who founded the Codman Research Group in Lyme, N.H., to study variations in the patterns of physician care. "That just...
...event monitoring system), the container comes with a tiny computer chip embedded in its cap. When the patient takes off the cap to remove a pill, the chip records the day and time. At the patient's next checkup, the doctor can ask for the bottle back. Then the physician inserts the cap into a special electronic machine that analyzes the data contained in the chip and lets the doctor know how regularly the pills were taken...
...January hired a professional ethicist to assist a committee of medical experts in deciding what specific services will be made available to the county's uninsured poor. "It's scary," says Dr. Marye L. Thomas, Alameda's director of mental health and a member of the committee. "As a physician, I was trained to give the best possible care to anyone, period. Back when I was in medical school, I never thought I would be discussing this...
...designation makes Cambridge Hospital eligible for federal funding to employ a public health service physician, said John G. O'Brien, hospital administrator, in an interview yesterday. In return for federally funded medical education, a public health service physician--in this case Dr. Molly Clark--agrees to practice for six years wherever the government deems necessary...