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...most basic ingredients in maintaining good health. But in this age of super-splintered medicine, figuring out which doctor to see has become something of a nightmare. Is there a fire in your midsection? It could be indigestion, gallstones, an exotic infection, stress, maybe even cancer. Should you consult a gastroenterologist, a tropical-disease expert, a psychiatrist or an oncologist? Once a patient climbs onto the specialist merry-go-round, it can be hard to get off. The medical bills mount, and the frustration soars...
...doctor and the patient are not seated knee to knee in an examining room: they are hundreds -- in one case thousands -- of miles apart. The physicians are practicing telemedicine, an emerging hybrid of telecommunications and patient care in which people in medically underserved areas use ordinary telephone lines to consult with highly trained specialists whom they could not otherwise afford...
When therapists feel themselves drawn into an emotional or sexual relationship with a patient, they are supposed to consult colleagues for guidance. Bean-Bayog seems to have done just this. Last week a clinical social worker in Boston said that Bean-Bayog had discussed her sexual attraction toward a Mexican-American patient in a teaching session. Bean-Bayog also repeatedly sought advice on the Lozano case from senior psychiatrists. Said one of her colleagues: "She had consultations at every stage of the game." He points out that a therapist who is abusing a patient is unlikely to be so open...
Local police departments all over the U.S. regularly consult clairvoyants, who they feel give them supernatural clues in tough cases. In Washington weekly parties of goggle-eyed believers sit about caressing spoons so that their mind power can cause the silverware to bend, paying $30 for half an hour of this mind-expansion instruction. Late-night TV viewers can call a 900 number to be advised on their future -- for a price -- by soothsayers whom they will meet only by telephone, introduced by Israeli "superpsychic" Uri Geller. Blissful devotees of meditation techniques sit for endless hours in yogic positions...
Rudenstine will conduct this search in much the same way as he has conducted other searches while at Harvard, Roberts said. Though he will consult widely, he will not form an official search committee to sort through the list of candidates...