Word: schooled
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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EDUCATION: A good inner-city school in Chicago...
...Alexandre Dumas, a 100% black elementary school, an emphasis on excellence, values and discipline is paying...
...transforms itself into a 24-hour society, millions of people are trying to get by on six hours or less of slumber, leaving many of them chronically sleep deprived and mentally impaired. The loss of alertness can contribute to everything from poor grades in school to accidents at work...
Psychiatrists were once the power brokers of mental health care. With full medical-school training and M.D.s after their names, they controlled the prestigious institutes of Freudian psychoanalysis. They determined whether patients would be committed to mental hospitals. And they had the exclusive right to prescribe mind-altering medications. But in the past several years psychologists, who have Ph.D.s but no medical school on their resumes, have been chipping away at the psychiatrists' domain...
...medications should be avoided but also how a particular drug might affect some pre-existing medical condition. Predicting and detecting such problems, argues Dr. John Tupper, president of the American Medical Association, "is not something one learns in a quickie course." Tupper and others believe that only full medical-school training could prepare psychologists to prescribe drugs safely. "There is no shortcut," he says...