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...actresses play five characters. Cheri Magnello plays Louise, the over-worked nurse; Andrea, a lawyer; and Sam, a painter. Victoria Pittman plays Alex and Dr. Emily Bernstein, an over-worked physician. The two succeed in avoiding confusion by making large changes of character and small changes of costume. The nurse grasps a briefcase to become a lawyer, a paintbrush to become a painter. Though Magnello and Pittman are convincing in each of their roles, in the quick changes, they often need more than a moment to find their new characters...
...hard to contain because it is highly contagious, comes in many varieties, and can originate almost anywhere. It has plagued humanity at least since 412 B.C., according to an account by the Greek physician Hippocrates. By far the most devastating flu season on record was in 1918-19, when some 20 million people worldwide -- including 500,000 in the U.S. -- died of the "Spanish...
...November, WUSA-TV said a local physician had reported to police that Barry had been treated for a drug overdose in 1983. The then-police chief later reported that investigators were unable to confirm that report...
...pediatrics at Yale University School of Medicine: "The question of who should and who shouldn't get growth-hormone therapy is a hornet's nest. The criteria are no longer clear." Many parents have been pressuring doctors to try hormone therapy on children who are not abnormally short. One physician recalls a father who asked if his tall son could be made even taller so he would be sure to make the Notre Dame football team. Says Dr. Joseph Gertner, program director of the Pediatric Clinical Research Center at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center: "As people realize that they...
...growing number of hospitals have embarked on programs to make physicians better aware of the prices of different medications. Doctors at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital now order antibiotics on forms that list the most cost- effective choices. "The physician still maintains the prerogative of choosing the drug, but we're educating him or her about costs," says Dr. % Jerry Avorn, the program's director. The hospital is saving $75,000 to $100,000 a year on its $900,000 antibiotic pharmaceutical budget...