physician
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Nearly 60 years after her unwanted pregnancy, Steinem dedicated her memoir to the British physician who arranged her abortion after she agreed to two conditions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
Aberdeen-based occupational health physician Dr Niyi Adeleke assesses the fitness of people for offshore work.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
Besigye, a former personal physician to long-ruling Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, has been in the authorities' crosshairs since he joined the east African country's opposition more than 25 years ago.
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
Making things worse, because of low physician reimbursement rates, Medicaid patients struggle to get appointments with specialists to be diagnosed in the first place.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
She was headlong in love with her young physician and thus in love with all that he did.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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“Scientists, physicians, public health experts and medical organizations recognized a gap and worked together to fill it.”
From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026
Pakistan's Supreme Court had on Tuesday directed the government to transfer Khan to a private hospital to be examined by physicians.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
The Association of American Medical Colleges projects the U.S. could face a shortage of between 20,200 and 40,400 primary care physicians by 2036.
From Slate ● Aug. 22, 2026
One consequence of all this consolidation is fewer physicians working in private practice—42% in 2024, down from 60% in 2012.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
He believed that he was one of the few physicians still seeing the nearly 6,000 persons then ill with the fever.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
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