Word: physician
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James B. Stewart's Blind Eye: How the Medical Establishment Let a Doctor Get Away with Murder (Simon & Schuster; 334 pages; $25) is a persuasive case against Dr. Michael Swango, a handsome, over-confident physician suspected of poisoning between 35 and 60 patients and co-workers from Illinois to Zimbabwe...
...This pesky legality results in some narrative discordance. For 300 pages, Blind Eye has Swango killing people right and left. Yet Stewart's conclusion contains a flurry of qualifying statements like "Swango is the first alleged serial killer in this century to have emerged in the guise of a physician." However inconvenient, writers have to obey libel laws; too many lawyers are watching. But where were the language police when Stewart chose the word guise? It means semblance, and if we know anything for sure, it is that Swango did not resemble a doctor...
...regulated by the Food and Drug Administration, potency and purity vary from brand to brand. Most troubling, however, is that few people read labels. The list of don'ts for ginkgo biloba include the warning that those taking aspirin or other blood thinners should first consult their physician. Why? Because ginkgo, which has anticlotting characteristics, when taken in combination with a blood thinner can cause internal bleeding...
...mother is in a different hospital with a crushed femur. Ismail seems to sense the unspoken news that his father is dead, as are three sisters. Yet despite his troubles, says Nail Yologlu, one of Ismail's doctors, the boy is healing. "In a ferocious way," says the physician, "he is coming...
...with his then radical psychology and the hocus-pocus of Sylvie/Nina's deep dive into legendary Atlantis. When the themes are eventually resolved in a kind of hypno-seance, Perlman's conflicted nature is dramatically illustrated. The music lover in the good doctor reacts against unmelodic compositions, while his physician side wants to reduce the lyrics of the subconscious to tuneless abstractions. He appears to have caught an incurable but nonfatal case of modern irony. But for a more thorough analysis, Perlman will have to survive until 1938, the year Sigmund Freud moves to London...