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Palestinian health professionals now have a new solution to their chronic shortages of medical equipment and supplies: filch the stuff from Israel. According to a senior doctor in the West Bank, criminal gangs are offering their services to Palestinian medical centers--asking what items are needed and furnishing them cheaply after robbing Israeli facilities, which, because of higher budgets, are generally better outfitted. A Jerusalem pharmacy was robbed two weeks ago of medicines worth tens of thousands of dollars. The thieves left the narcotics on the shelf and took mainly antibiotics and fertility drugs, both scarce in the Palestinian territories...
...stories of Harvard s own undergraduate RSI sufferers do suggest that ergonomics are a vital aspect of both the chronic injury and its cure. Daniel W. Suleiman 99, a Crimson editor, noticed "something in my hands" a year ago. Pretty soon it was unbearable. "I could not write, I could not type. These tendons were just inflamed and there was nothing to do but nurse them back. The fact is, by the time you notice anything, that s it, you ve already...
...made up. Far from it. Both Suleiman and Podolsky have developed a strong faith in the complicated, fungible nature of the pain they experienced and still experience. Dr. Coley sees factors as abstract as "the amount of control someone has over their work situation" contributing to cases of chronic injury. Perhaps, therefore, micro-breaks and wrist stretches are not enough. In an environment as manic as Harvard, maybe there is something more than mechanical to RSIs. "I hadn t ever heard of [RSI] before I developed it." Suleiman recalls. "All of a sudden people started talking about...
...Gordon, with a note of amusement in her voice, describes a herd instinct she has observed in students reporting problems, "Whenever there s an article in the paper about that sort of thing we get a lot of people in here wondering if they have it." If RSI and chronic pain conditions like it are as culturally mutable as recent models suggest, perhaps in a limited sense the fear can aggravate the pain...
...experiences can improve symptoms in rheumatoid arthritis and asthma patients. And though patients wrote only 20 minutes a day over three consecutive days, about half of them experienced positive effects that seemed to last for months. The study is more evidence that the mind plays an important role in chronic illnesses...