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Groopman cautions that emotions are more of an issue than most physicians like to admit. Doctors who are particularly fond of a patient have been known to miss the diagnosis of a life-threatening cancer because they just didn't want it to be true. But negative emotions can be just as blinding, sometimes stopping a doctor from going the extra mile. "If you sense that your doctor is irritated with you, that he or she doesn't like you," says Groopman, "then it's time to get a new doctor." Studies show that most patients are pretty accurate...
...Pterodactyls” is the type of play where a character’s main concern upon hearing that a friend’s child has cancer is how it will affect the seating arrangements at a wedding. It’s a show in which the best place to put a dead friend is out on the terrace for the rest of the winter, until the ground is soft enough to bury him. While this could be taken as a disclaimer, it will hopefully function as an enticement, because while “Pterodactyls” is jarring...
...long after their "sexual debut." About 40% of girls become infected with HPV within two years of becoming sexually active. By age 50, 80% of women have had the virus at some point, though many have no symptoms, and only a small percentage of infections lead to cancer...
...protecting my child from cancer outweighs any reluctance to ponder her sexual future. "But some parents are totally in denial," says my longtime pediatrician, Dr. Marc Wager of New Rochelle, N.Y. It's his practice to discuss the vaccine when parents bring a daughter for a checkup at 11 or 12. But he doesn't force it on those who resist, and he's willing to edit his discussion of HPV transmission for those who don't want a child to hear...
...Bienenstock, who organized the meeting that led to the white paper. The paper says that many of the policy suggestions are already being practiced by technology transfer officers across the country. But Anthony A. del Campo, vice president of research and technology ventures at the Harvard-affiliated Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, saw another reason for the universities to put together the guidelines. “It seems to me that what these nine points are is more of a public policy outreach kind of thing, that they make sure that the public understands that they’re behaving properly...