HEALTH
February 25, 2002 | BOB ROSENBLATT
In this age of managed care, many of us no longer have easy access to the best and brightest in medicine. Unless, of course, money is no object--or someone else is picking up the tab. If that's the case, you might get to experience something called the "executive physical." For $2,000 and up, you can spend two days getting poked and prodded, undergoing a battery of tests and talking at length to a top-notch doctor about your eating habits, family medical history and exercise routine.
SPORTS
August 12, 2001 | BEN BOLCH, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Inside the musty confines of the Oxnard Channel Islands High football office, two doctors and their assistants examine players in assembly-line fashion. The athletes shuffle from station to station getting their height and weight and blood pressure checked before moving on to an exam room, where the doctors listen to their hearts and conduct cursory checks for other ailments.
NEWS
July 27, 2001 | From Times Wire Reports
After criticism from women's and human rights organizations, Turkish Health Minister Osman Durmus denied that he authorized virginity tests for high school nursing students suspected of having sex. Durmus said this month that high school girls studying at government-run nursing schools would be expelled if they had sex and barred from studying at other government institutions. Newspapers reported that he was authorizing virginity tests, an order that nurses' and women's groups vowed to fight.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
January 17, 2001 | STEPHANIE STASSEL
It could have been just another boring wait for the doctor. But instead, kids were mesmerized Tuesday as a volunteer read stories and handed out bookmarks, stickers and lollipops. And perhaps the luckiest of all were the young children getting checkups, who were treated to a brand-new book they could take home.
HEALTH
January 1, 2001 | JANE E. ALLEN, TIMES HEALTH WRITER
Doctors are said to make lousy patients. Now comes a study indicating that many docs avoid being patients altogether. Researchers at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine decided to examine how well doctors took care of their health after previous studies suggested that doctors' bad habits--among them smoking and drinking--influence what they tell patients.
NEWS
December 5, 1999 | From Associated Press
Medical records of presidential candidate John McCain conclude he suffered no psychological wounds from his 5 1/2 years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. Hundreds of documents were released Saturday to the Associated Press to counter what McCain aides call a "whisper campaign" engineered by Republican rivals challenging his mental fitness. "He had a very healthy way of dealing with his experiences," Dr. Michael Ambrose, director of the Robert E.