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...Which is why there are few office visits that cause a pediatrician more headaches than a child whose chief complaint is, in fact, headaches. Most childhood headaches can be attributed to the same things that cause adults' headaches, such as sinus infections, stress, allergies, migraines and eye strain. But as common as these etiologies are, the causes of headaches are myriad, and a careful practitioner must be able to diagnose the serious, albeit rare, causes as well as the common ones. So it is always with some reluctance that I approach headache patients, not because they are demanding but because...
...more than normal." Her physical exam was significant for hundreds of chicken pox lesions from head to toe, a slightly rigid neck and a refusal to cooperate with an eye exam. All indicators suggested that Sarah had meningitis as a complication of her chicken pox, but the vision complaint didn't fit. A spinal tap was indicated to confirm the meningitis diagnosis, but a CT scan, performed "just to rule out anything evil," showed a small resectable brain tumor pushing on her optic nerves. Sarah recovered well from both her chicken pox and the neurosurgery and remained relatively headache free...
...school to recruit, actively, women and minority faculty and students, and to scrap classroom policies they considered discriminatory. One women’s group even charged that the school’s lackadaisical search for women and minority faculty candidates has violated federal affirmative action hiring codes, a complaint still pending with the Department of Labor. Last week, the school finally began to act. Administrators announced they will include students on the school’s three admissions committees—as a student panel had requested. And they revealed they will soon hire a female associate professor, the highest...
...exceeded its yearly portion of generosity, and another request now might well seem like just too much. After all, Lamont’s hours are extended, and the officialdom has even managed to keep the gates open until twelve, or at least most of the time. But the present complaint is a minor one, as easily solved as it is obvious. Quite simply, Lamont has two typing rooms but no place to leave typewriters. For the trustful, of course, this is no problem—the typist just leaves his machine when he goes to class or meals. One dislikes...
...their minority representation.In order to boost its image, the Kennedy School allegedly inflated the number of female and black faculty in a report, prompting many alumni and students to rally behind the cause of greater minority representation and demand greater dedication to affirmative action from the school.The final complaint, laid at the door of the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) by the national women’s rights group Women’s Equity Action League (WEAL) claimed that the positions of two black female research associates at the KSG had been misrepresented to the DOL, labeling them...