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...busy, and few of them have time for long, leisurely doctor-patient conversations. "It's ironic that as we're getting a broader picture of how important stress levels are to physical health, we're simultaneously cramming appointments into shorter and shorter periods of time," says Dr. Daniel Brotman, director of the Hospitalist Program at Johns Hopkins Hospital and author of a review paper on emotional stress and heart health, which was published in the September issue of The Lancet. Brotman acknowledges the strong link between stress and cardiovascular disease, but he doesn't think it's realistic...
...patients' health concerns. If a woman complains of chest pain, for example, but says it only bothers her when she's feeling "worked up" - but not on the treadmill or climbing a flight of stairs - her physician should interpret her emotional state as a real, physical risk factor, says Brotman. "The trigger is emotional, and physicians tend to blow that off," he says. "Traditional Western medicine has really endeavored to think of the body as a machine, and disease as how the machine breaks down. [Doctors can be] reluctant to think of the mind and body as being part...
...turning point of the contest came during Chu and Chiu’s doubles match against the Gauchos’ top duo of Alex Anselme and Nick Brotman. With the match tied at eight, the USCB pair was able to put away the final game to triumph 9-8 and secure the doubles point for the Gauchos...
...Most of them have been major operations that usually involve extensive blood loss and transfusions: liver resections, hip replacements, abdominal aortic aneurysms, hysterectomies and brain surgery. "From a medical point of view, there are no technical barriers to performing bloodless surgeries," says Dr. Sharo Raissi, a cardiac surgeon at Brotman Medical Center, one of a dozen hospitals in Los Angeles that offer such services. "There is no limit as to what can be done for patients, from open-heart surgery even to transplants...
...think it's a great class and she's a great lecturer," said Alissa S. Brotman '97, a history and science concentrator. "She's made the class really interesting...