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The police have ruled Loiseau's death, at 52, a suicide. But in France, the killer is still considered at large. Last week Loiseau's fellow chefs accused the guidebooks of murder. "Bravo, GaultMillau. You have won," declared Paul Bocuse, the famous dean of French chefs. Bocuse, who spoke to...
While we can be pretty sure that medical errors occur with some frequency--nearly 100,000 deaths a year are caused by such errors, one survey reported--it is less clear that doctors or hospitals will voluntarily own up to their mistakes. In a study published in 1991, 76% of...
About the only redeeming quality of sports betting is the way it infuses even the dullest games with excitement. An inter-league, mid-season baseball game is a snoozer. But put $10 or $100 on it, and everyone starts to pay attention. The same thing is true with the war...
I had forgotten just how closely those two questions could be linked. The girls’ concern reminded me of my Balkanized high school, where the cliques identified themselves by what they wore; an unbridgeable gulf lay between the preppy soccer players and the black-clad, black-nail-polished kids...
"I would say that U.S. hospitals are aggressively pursuing readiness," says Dr. Howard Levitin, an emergency physician and hosptial disaster preparedness specialist at St. Francis Hospital in Indianapolis. "They're prepared for situations we've seen before: two or three patients involved in a chemical accident. The doctors and nurses...