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Which is why I am at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Today I will undergo an all-day physical examination designed to ferret out the body's early warning signs, nascent failings and pending catastrophes. Dozens of similar executive health programs have sprung up around the country, prompted by the proliferation of HMOs, which generally restrict physicals to bare-bones essentials, and by a rapidly aging population in need of greater care. The cost of these thorough examinations can run high--from $1,200 to $2,500--and is generally not reimbursable by insurance companies. Rather, employers often insist that their...
Like most of the middle-aged men and women being examined today, I appear entirely healthy on the outside. Yet, warns internist Dr. John Campbell, a staff member of the clinic's personal-health-management program, which administers the physical, "no one who comes through here is really healthy." That vague feeling of foreboding, that they will discover something seriously wrong with me, returns...
...largest purveyor of rapid detox is the Center for the Investigation and Treatment of Addiction, which pioneered the technique and opened its first clinic in Israel in 1993. It has since expanded and changed hands several times, franchising clinics in several countries and treating thousands of addicts--to a drumbeat of criticism. The British medical journal Lancet, for one, has blasted CITA for exploiting "the hopes and fears of opioid addicts and their families [and] for making exaggerated claims...
...What we and the FBI don't know is where Rudolph is, which is why he ascended to the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list today, a mysterious figure sought in connection with the Atlanta Olympic bombing and a subsequent Alabama abortion-clinic bombing...
...When the New Woman All Women clinic was bombed . . .(continued...