Word: clinicism
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...discovering true enjoyment solely through college-sponsored fun. I continue to believe that the best friends will make the best writers, the best doctors, the best leaders, and the best local and global citizens. I will offer one critical economic example to convey my point, the oft-cited Mayo Clinic study that shows that the likelihood of a doctor being sued for malpractice is correlated less with his actual medical talent than his bedside manner. Again, this does of course not mean intensive study is fruitless but rather that it is incomplete and insufficient. As I sift through eight semesters...
From her worldwide travels to various jobs, Robin M. Worth ’81 has never been one to shy away from new adventures.She has backpacked through Europe and Asia and has volunteered in rural Ethiopia at a school and health clinic. But these experiences have been marked by repeated returns to Harvard, a place that gave her opportunities this native Texan might not have had.“I was always aware of how different my life would have been had I not come to Harvard,” she says. Now back again as the director of international...
...Those lucky enough to escape dug for survivors with their bare hands. Electricity and phone lines throughout much of the city were disrupted, and Yogyakarta's airport was temporarily closed due to damage, diverting much-needed relief flights. Makeshift ambulances picked their way along cratered roads to hospitals and clinics choked with the injured. Nurses laid the wounded in folding beds outside the buildings, for fear of aftershocks. Even more crowded were the morgues, which filled with the dead until corpses spilled over into the hallways. "I didn't have time to count how many died," says Damai, a nurse...
...Those lucky enough to escape dug for survivors with their bare hands. Electricity and phone lines throughout much of the city were disrupted, and Yogyakarta's airport was temporarily closed due to damage, diverting much-needed relief flights. Makeshift ambulances picked their way along cratered roads to hospitals and clinics choked with the injured. Nurses laid the wounded in folding beds outside the buildings, for fear of aftershocks. Even more crowded were the morgues, which filled with the dead until corpses spilled over into the hallways. "I didn't have time to count how many died," says Damai, a nurse...
...flee with their four children, leaving behind their life's possessions, a ravaged community of torched houses and the bloodied corpses of family members and friends. Now Ulumba is struggling to save another life: that of her 6-month-old son Amoni Mutombo. The baby lies whimpering in a clinic run by the aid organization Doctors Without Borders. His belly is distended by malnutrition, and although he appears to be in pain, he has no energy to cry. A nurse tries for half an hour to inject antibiotics into Amoni's twiglike arm, its wrinkled skin wrapped loosely around...