Word: commitement
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...BENJAMIN WILL NEVER FORGET the first time he helped a patient commit suicide. It was more than a quarter-century ago. An elderly couple came to his office, husband and wife, both terminally ill and in terrible agony with cancer. "They told me they would like a supply of pills on hand just in case," recalls the 71-year-old New York City internist. The law forbade him to agree; his conscience dictated otherwise. In the end, his conscience won, but Benjamin had to wrestle with this ethical dilemma alone. At the time, doctors didn't even whisper among themselves...
...undertaken lightly. Benjamin, whose car sports a bumper sticker reading GOOD LIFE, GOOD DEATH, gets one or two requests a month for help in dying but talks most of his patients out of it. Says he: "You don't want to give pills to someone you think decided to commit suicide on Tuesday and on Wednesday would have changed his mind...
...good thesis requires an extraordinary amount of blood, sweat and tears. But it is not the only path to distinction. Before steeling yourself to its chains, make sure your enthusiasm reflects a will to commit to weeks where you will focus on nothing but esoteric puzzles that will surely bore your roommates. And if you truly are mad north be northwest, submit to an experience whose rewards go far beyond the honors degree...
When you hit as many balls out of the infield for base hits as you commit errors, common sense dictates that you'll lose. Well, score one for common sense...
...Talk about a pick-me-up. Data on 87,000 female nurses ages 34 to 60 show that women who drink two or more cups of coffee a day are two-thirds less likely to commit suicide than those who abstain. The finding comes as a surprise: coffee lovers tend to drink alcohol, smoke and have lots of what they perceive to be stress--all factors thought to be associated with a high suicide risk...