hospitalist n.— «“The primary-care doctor may feel a sense of loss and even abandonment giving up his patient to another doctor, and sick patients have the right to be worried about being cared for by a stranger,” says Robert...
discordant couple n.— «The physician who performed the inseminations reported that in January 1990 a second HIV-1-discordant couple (i.e., seropositive husband with hemophilia, sero negative wife) underwent one insemination using the same...
bleeding deacon n.— «“If anything is going to destroy A.A.,” says Dr. John Norris, a nonalcoholic physician, friend of Bill Wilson’s and for many years chairman of A.A.‘s board of trustees, “it will be what I call the...