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...specific brand of hip or knee prosthesis are difficult, occasionally impossible, to deny to the folks who ask for them. In the American doctors' precarious medico-legal (and fiscal-social) position, career success is increasingly built on cooperation with the corporate and government powers that touch us. Playing along with that sketchy (but expensive) new treatment or being a champion of the wacky new state initiative is more likely to help your career than giving an educated but honest appraisal of actual patients' well being. The only salvation from this might be, strangely, the recession. Traditional medicine, without the consumer...
...coastline while sea otters backstroke through the cold, clear waters of the Sound. It is a remarkable turnaround since the Exxon spill, the worst man-made environmental disaster in U.S. history - the immediate shock of which killed hundreds of thousands of shorebirds that made their home in the Sound along with sea otters that choked on the crude. Over the long term, populations of orcas, killer whales, herring and other species would be injured by the accident. (Read "Remembering the Lessons of the 'Exon Valdez...
...remembered the aspiring doctor’s winning personality. “He was an inspiring person, deeply committed to science and medicine, but also very kind,” said Michelle C. Siao ’09, who worked in Professor Thomas P. Maniatis’s lab along with Cai. Siao recalled a story that Cai’s mother told about Peter receiving immunization shots as a baby. As the doctor came forward to administer the injections, the young Cai kept smiling. “He really did smile a lot,” Siao said. Julia...
...death.Copney had been in contact with Cosby several times leading up to the incident to set up a meeting in Kirkland J-entryway, Assistant District Attorney Daniel Bennett said at Copney’s arraignment, though he gave no more information about the extent of their relationship.Copney, along with two unidentified individuals from New York, planned to scam Cosby out of drugs and money in his possession, and the police had recovered a pound of marijuana and approximately $1,000 on or near Cosby after he had been shot, according to Middlesex County District Attorney Gerard T. Leone...
...peeved that an advanced copy had not been provided to his office. An insider says that on the contrary, Netanyahu realized that Obama's speech would be nothing less than a "remapping of U.S policy in the Middle East, and it is in Israel's interests to play along." He adds, "Bibi [Netanyahu] understands that the Obama locomotive is passing through, and he'd better not get left stranded at the station...