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...lucky daughter: I got to be the final caregiver for both my parents. For almost 12 years I cared for them and handled their affairs. My mother passed away four years ago, and 13 months later my father passed away--in my home, with the wonderful assistance of hospice. I always kept my sisters, who were not able to move to help our parents in the way I did, informed about the true medical condition of our parents, and they have always recognized and appreciated what...
...song is never finished. I listen to songs that I recorded more than 10 years ago, and I can still hear something I could do differently, something that I could've played better, something that could've been produced better. That's just...
...Cardinal announced that its second-quarter revenue increased 3%, to $25 billion, supplemented by a 38% increase in profit on the medical-supply side. But perhaps even better news came when AmerisourceBergen and McKesson unveiled their earnings a few days earlier. Whereas a year ago, one of the two might have boasted about winning some of Cardinal's business, this time around, says Gill, "the same competitor is saying the exact opposite: 'We think all of our competitors are in good places, and given the stickiness, we don't expect any big accounts to change hands.'" In other words, Cardinal...
...author of Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure, says he has received hundreds of grateful letters from parents of autistic children thanking him for debunking the autism-vaccine connection. But he has also received death threats, as recently as a month ago. "It's easy to scare people," says Offit. "But it's extremely hard to unscare them...
...years ago, Dani Shapiro began suffering from what she calls an "is-this-all-there-is despondency," a spiritual malaise she chronicles in her new memoir, Devotion (HarperCollins; 245 pages). She had her farmhouse with a quarter-mile-long driveway, a sweetheart of a husband, an adorable son and a thriving career as a novelist, but something was missing...