Word: boberisms
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...boring and depressing. This summer, as I languished away in the Cambridge sun, something—a longing for the familiar, perhaps—told me to revisit Malamud and his tale of an old Jewish grocery store owner whose newfound, gentile assistant tries to help the Bober family while fighting his own, prominent internal demons. I instantly recalled why I enjoyed the novel so much the first time. On its surface, sure, it’s boring and depressing: Poverty, shattered dreams and the mundane happenings inside a floundering neighborhood grocery aren’t exactly a recipe...
...don’t live in a society where people are mathematically competent,” Bober said. “Women can easily misperceive side-effects...
...Bober said these risks are far outweighed by the decrease in risk for breast cancer...
...flashes are uncomfortable, but not life-threatening; uterine cancer is serious, but the chances of that happening is very, very small,” Bober said. “The fact is, your risk of breast cancer is significantly higher than that of you getting uterine cancer...
Since patient psychology plays a key role in patients’ decisions about treatment, Bober believes that doctors hold part of the responsibility as well...