A VIP doctor — esteemed, high in his medical profession — told me:
“Over a year ago — as VIP specialties began to erode — a known drug company saw what they considered an opportunity.
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they → tell → me
They would buy out smaller doctors with the least financial futures and tiniest practices and located in the lesser communities.
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They → buy → communities
Some were not running hot financially.
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Some → run → ?
Some becoming seniors were pleased to be getting bought out.
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Some → become → ?
Seems it was not as profitable financially as drug company brains originally thought.
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brains → seem → ?
NOW — a year later — they’re stopping the practice.
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they → stop → practice
It’s into reversal.
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It → ’ → reversal
They’re not earning what was predicted.
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what → earn → ?
So, ask these VIP medics the future of medicine and they’ll tell you — it’s going down.
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it → ask → you
Now superiors check to see just how long you’ve spent with a patient.
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you → check → patient
Also how many patients were you able to see in one day?
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you → see → day
The hospital situation, they will tell you, is dire.
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they → tell → you
In 1928, Vogue’s editor Edna Woolman Chase brought 17 together — like Elizabeth Arden, Helena Rubinstein — for a ladies’ lunch.
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Chase → bring → lunch
Included was Eleanor Roosevelt.
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Roosevelt → include → ?
She was no Dior but she helped create a place for new designers.
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she → help → designers
Now, NYC’s almost 100-year-old Fashion Group is getting even more fashionable.
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Group → get → ?
Before all the kvetching, Ralph Lifshitz sold ties at Bergdorf and then became Ralph Lauren.
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Lifshitz → sell → Bergdorf
Calvin Klein apprenticed on Seventh Avenue.
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Klein → apprentice → Avenue
Donna Karan hailed from Queens and it wasn’t a penthouse.
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it → hail → Queens
Vera Wang worked at Saint Laurent on Madison Avenue.
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Wang → work → Avenue
Marc Jacobs and Geoffrey Beene bit into the Big Apple fast.
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Jacobs → bite → Apple
And as put graciously: Halston possibly designed ultra-suede condoms.
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Halston → put → condoms
Recently the Rainbow Room hosted Wang.
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Room → host → Wang
Not complaining is Brooklyn’s Isaac Mizrahi.
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Mizrahi → complain → ?
His brand’s on QVC.
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brand → ’ → QVC
They even smell better.
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They → smell → ?
Their scents now make not cents, but dollars.
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scents → make → cents
Julia Roberts spritzes Lancome.
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Roberts → spritz → Lancome
Zendaya gets Zen with Prada.
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Zendaya → get → Prada
For Gracie Abrams it’s Chanel’s Coco.
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it → ’ → Abrams
Florence Pugh does not say “p-u” to Max Mara.
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Pugh → say → Mara
Billie Eilish praises her Eilish brand.
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Eilish → praise → brand
On Bloomingdale’s main floor the scent level will send you right to an ear/eye/nose and throat specialist who possibly got his nasal diploma via a correspondence course.
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who → send → course
So, are we now experiencing the beginning of Armageddon?
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we → experience → Armageddon
America, New York, France, Great Britain, Russia, Ukraine, Taiwan, China, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Yemen, Palestinian territories, everywhere . . . it’s universal hate, horror, anger, war.
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it → ’ → ?
We’re forgoing kids’ lunch money to zoom to downtown Jupiter just to establish interstellar army camps?
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We → forgo → camps
Someone who is smarter than I, let us know, is this IT?!
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this → let → I
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