Before Katrina, he ran the Little Doctor's Neighborhood Clinic in Treme, an old Creole neighborhood.
"You're a little doctor with a practice somewhere--it's very intimidating, " says Peter McDonnell, chair of the ophthalmology department at the University of California at Irvine.
The other really notable titles this week -- for geeks at least -- is a little Doctor Who and Torchwood, both courtesy of the BBC and Warner.
The way things work at present, they're taken to their local District General Hospital accident and emergency department, where they're sometimes met at the door by a junior doctor with little experience of their condition.
For poor countries, a little biotech could be just what the doctor ordered.
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She had already been accepted to Yale Medical School, where she had dreamed of training to be a doctor since she was a little girl.
While the findings that people like both power and choice is not entirely surprising in terms of career choice, considering the number of little kids who hope to be a doctor or astronaut as opposed to, say, a rest room attendant, the authors of the study are interested in what the two elements (power and choice) have in common.
With all due respect to my fellow commentator from "House, " hospital dramas reinforce public expectations of the doctor-hero, who needs little or nothing from his colleagues.
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Every single one of these myths seems likely to me to have seemed like a little white lie when told by an individual doctor to an individual patient.
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Sometimes they feel compelled to give money because they worry that otherwise the doctor will retaliate by giving them too little anesthesia or stitching them up sloppily.
The heart of the changes show an emphasis on preventive services, end-of-life conversations, prescription drug coverage, insurance company restrictions, with little focus on how this will all effect your doctor, accessibility of services, or your premiums.
She had used what little gas she had left to drive to her last doctor's appointment.
No doctor suggested to me that I might find a little counseling helpful.
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If the doctor had turned to contemporary authorities on insomnia, he would have found little of use.
"It's a little bit of detective work, " says Charles Cutler, a primary-care doctor in Norristown, Pa.
Yes, your doctor telling you that he has something for you that will make you feel a little better, puts you in a better mood, stops your worry, and makes your vague subjective symptoms feel a little better!
Numerous factors work against testing psychiatric medicines on suicidal patients, says Novartis Chairman Daniel Vasella. (Vasella, a doctor, insisted on the trial over the objections of some underlings.) So little is known about the biology of suicide that the outcome is unpredictable.
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The tribunal heard that the doctor told the woman that she was "pretty" and said "you remind me of my little sister back home".
Its found little relation between the supply of primary care doctors in a region the percentage of people who see a primary care doctor each year.
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