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...awaiting trial, Najarian has retreated into his private practice. At the University of Minnesota Hospital, where he still performs two or three transplants a week, the embattled physician can often be seen striding down corridors in his white coat and surgical greens or sitting behind his desk in his out-of-the-way office, musing quietly amid pictures of his adult sons. On the advice of his lawyers, Najarian is saying little about the charges he faces, but he makes no secret of his anger and sense of betrayal. "The university," he says, "turned on me because they were afraid...
...Josiah Nott, a respected physician in the1840s, who was then considered one of the foundersof the American school of anthropology, tookKames' hypothesis further. He asserted that Blackswere of a different species, and called mixed-racepeople 'hybrids.' He warned against intermarriagebetween white and Black, predicting it would bringthe fall of both 'species...
Speranskaya fell in love with another doctor. She became pregnant and had a daughter. Natalya Evdokimova is now 50, and she became a doctor too. She went through a particularly difficult experience in the waning years of Soviet power. In 1984 she was assigned as the personal physician to the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and dissident physicist Andrei Sakharov. He and his wife Yelena Bonner were closely watched by the secret police. "[KGB agents] tried to accuse us of diagnosing Sakharov's condition as being more serious than it really was, or of trying to give him information and news...
...case of Mack's Abduction is not quite so simple as, let's say, an idiosyncratic work of literary criticism. As a physician, Mack is charged with healing the ill and must not indulge his own particular whims and caprices at the expense of his patients' health...
...Senate takes up thenomination of Dr. Henry Foster as Surgeon General, President Clinton has launched an intensive effort to bolster the Tennessee physician's chances. Sidestepping conservative broadsides about Foster's abortion record, Clinton today declared the 61-year-old obstetrician-gynecologist a "pro-life, pro-choice doctor." Foster will testify Tuesday before the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee. Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, who has threatened to block a full Senate vote on the controversial nomination, said the GOP will hammer at the Administration's belated disclosures that Foster had supervised hundreds of abortions. "This is about telling...