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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Lynette Sylvester weighed 259 lbs., she hated Jane Fonda. The movie star was everything that Sylvester, 42, wanted to be and wasn't: among other things, svelte and athletic. In fact, Sylvester's weight problem had become so severe that her physician recommended she have her stomach stapled. "I realized that if I didn't change my behavior, I would die," recalls the store owner from Burnsville, Minn. Determined, she went on a liquid-protein diet and lost 120 lbs. Now, a year later, down from a size 44 dress to size 10, Sylvester regards Fonda as her personal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: Drinking Yourself Skinny | 12/19/1988 | See Source »

BOSTON--The number of doctors practicing in Massachusetts has risen in the last decade, according to a new study of physician supply, meaning that reports of medicine's demise in the Bay State may be premature...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Number of Bay State Doctors Increases | 12/16/1988 | See Source »

...report was presented this week to the state's Special Commission to Study Physician Shortages in Massachusetts, which was established earlier this year under the universal health care law. A spokesperson for the commission's chairperson, Human Services Secretary Philip Johnston, said the study was under review, along with other materials...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Number of Bay State Doctors Increases | 12/16/1988 | See Source »

...William Schwartz of Tufts Medical School, a national expert on physician supply issues, welcomed the study but emphasized its limitations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Number of Bay State Doctors Increases | 12/16/1988 | See Source »

...former physician at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania may have outdone most of his colleagues. Martin Spector was fined $35,200 and sentenced to 1600 hours of community service for selling stolen body parts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Class Cuts | 12/10/1988 | See Source »

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