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...Dublin. Walsh clipped Aer Lingus' staff numbers by about a third and trimmed costs, part of a "culture to pare everything down to the bone," says Gill. But the ex-pilot failed to push through further job cuts before his departure in January. And rising fuel costs and chronic staff troubles could make it hard to get similar steps at BA off the ground. - By Adam Smith Trading Flaws Frankfurt's Deutsche Börse bowed to pressure from rebel shareholders and shelved its $2.5 billion bid for the London Stock Exchange. LSE shares promptly tanked. Pan-European rival Euronext...
THANK YOU FOR YOUR MOVING AND INsightful cover story on ways to manage chronic pain [Feb. 28]. As a person who has battled debilitating pain for more than five years, I read it with tears in my eyes. But I was encouraged that your magazine took the crucial step of shifting the focus away from pills to other ways of treating the sources of pain. And I can't thank you enough for including fibromyalgia in your article. Many of us who suffer from it still face doctors who fail to recognize this excruciating disease--plunging us into a nightmare...
RECURRENT PAIN IS GROSSLY UNDERtreated in our society. For tens of millions of Americans, chronic pain is a catastrophic medical condition that can disrupt every aspect of their lives. Still, the vast majority of doctors receive little training in pain management. Patients need to be persistent. It is important for them to find a caring, involved physician specializing in pain management. Essentially, the physician becomes a partner in their care. Advances in the understanding and treatment of chronic pain can significantly improve quality of life. Although pain cannot always be completely eliminated, it can be reduced to the point that...
TIME'S REPORTING ON METHODS OF PAIN relief delivered wide-ranging, sound and useful information that I, as a chronic pain sufferer, certainly appreciated. I learned more from your article than I did in all my years of doctor hopping. Kudos to TIME for a job more than well done...
...TAKE A PAIN MEDICATION THAT HAS literally given me my life back. Ironically, even the doctor who prescribed it thinks much of my pain is "psychological." The only response I have for such doctors is to say that chronic pain can happen to anyone. It might even happen...