Word: surgeon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have a local plastic surgeon who can perform emergency liposuction/breast augmentation...
...MANY CAREERS? Yes, including movie Yes, including actor, star, surgeon and talk-show host and astronaut chauffeur...
...whites with identical symptoms. After subjecting the data to statistical tests to assure its reliability, the study's authors concluded that the disparity in what are literally life-and-death decisions about medical care was most likely due to unconscious biases about gender and race. As U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher, who happens to be an African American, told the Washington Post, "Blacks are 40% more likely [than whites] to die from heart disease, and this could be one factor...
...combination of a reporter's raw files and an undergraduate's paper. The strength here is that the author does dig up unquestionably fascinating subjects: vampires who drink one another's blood, necrophiliac morticians, people who claim to have been abducted and sexually molested by aliens, a married surgeon who sleeps with 10 women a month. But her writing style can be monotonous and self-conscious, and her need to place these people in cultural context and blame society for their freakish proclivities is trite. Still, the book is worth skimming--you'll feel contentedly average afterward...
LIVERS AND BLADDERS. Anthony Atala, a surgeon who makes bladders at Boston's Children's Hospital, has taken muscle cells from the outside of dog bladders and lining cells from the inside and grown them in his lab. The cells, fed the proper growth-prompting chemicals, happily go forth and multiply. "In six weeks we have enough cells to cover a football field," Atala says. He placed a few muscle cells on the surface of a small polymer sphere and some lining cells on the inside. When he inserted the sphere in a dog's urinary system, the artificial bladder...