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...older physicians retire, the medical profession is also losing its institutional memory of the days before Roe. A generation raised in the era of safe and legal abortion is less likely to produce doctors ready to go to the barricades at the first sign of women being forced to undergo illegal -- and dangerous -- abortions. "I have personally taken care of women with red rubber catheters hanging out of their uterus and a temperature of 107 degrees," says Dr. David Grimes, 45, of the University of Southern California School of Medicine. "Once a physician has watched that happening...
...hospital soap opera. Early stories range from a boxer showing symptoms of Parkinson's disease to a couple who refuse surgery for their young son because of religious convictions. And John Mahoney, as a doctor who teaches a course in humanistic medicine, is the best gruff-but-kindly TV physician since Dr. Gillespie hung up his stethoscope...
...Albert Barnes, a Philadelphia physician who made millions from an antiseptic he invented and marketed in 1901, had a Medici-like eye for art. But his taste shocked the blue bloods of his day, who scorned him -- and earned his unrelenting enmity in return. At his death in 1951, he directed that no picture from his collection could be loaned, sold, reproduced or even moved from its position on the wall. Future control of the foundation, he decreed, would be in the hands of trustees appointed by Lincoln University, a small black college in Lincoln University, Pa. Since then, alumni...
...Antonia Novello--who replaced C. Everett Koop as the "national physician" in March 1990--said that half the children in junior high school and high school drink alcohol regularly, despite the national minimum drinking...
Although the state medical board expressed "concerns" about the conduct of both doctors, the board concluded that the neither physician's conduct "constitutes a violation of statute or regulation," according to the written record of the board's March 11 decision...