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...made very candid remarks and it served me and the institution very well,” he said...
Some provincial health workers are equally unlikely to be candid. At a secret staff meeting overheard by a TIME reporter, Dr. Zhang Hanwei, director of the Shanxi Provincial People's Hospital in Taiyuan, relayed what he called the "three nos" disseminated by China's Ministry of Central Publicity: no talking to the media about SARS, no talking to the public about treating the disease and no tattling to WHO if its experts come calling. And with that warning, the meeting ended. The same, sadly, cannot be said of the epidemic. --By Hannah Beech. With reporting by Susan Jakes and Huang...
...Meanwhile, hobbled by a lack of candid information about the disease, many doctors are unclear about the best treatment methods available to them. At the Inner Mongolia Thoracic Hospital, located in a squalid part of Hohhot in front of a garbage dump, a doctor eagerly opens an express-mail package sent by a colleague in Beijing. Inside it are pages of SARS research from the University of West Virginia, which points to antioxidants as a possible treatment for the mysterious pathogen. "Our preventive measures aren't sufficient," he says. "Beijing sent us instructions about how to prepare for this disease...
...purpose of this panel is to provide a candid, analytic and heartfelt discussion on this fifteenth day of war on Iraq.” Allison said...
Saddam expected unconditional subservience from his inner circle. According to another oft told story, he asked his Cabinet for candid advice when Iraq was faring badly early in the war against Iran. The Health Minister spoke up to suggest that Saddam resign temporarily to appease Iran until peace could be reached and then return. After thanking the minister, Saddam ordered his arrest. When the minister's wife pleaded for her husband's life, Saddam sent him back in pieces, stuffed in a black bag. Advisers learned better than to contradict...