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NASA is pressing for a cure because SAS can disrupt short-term flights. As a temporary remedy, astronauts routinely take along pills containing a combination of scopolamine, a drug that blunts sensations, and dextroamphetamine, a stimulant to counteract scopolamine's dulling effects on the body and mind. When the pills failed to help Lenoir, NASA's chief flight surgeon Sam Pool advised from Houston ground headquarters that Lenoir also take Phenergan, an antihistamine, and Dalmane if he needed a sleep medication. But the combination of potent drugs is not an ideal solution since it can impair coordination...
...dramatic changes in the practice of medicine during Thomas's lifetime are the focus of the book. When his father, also a doctor, practiced medicine in the early 1900s, few doctors profitted financially and most felt helpless because they couldn't cure patients. Medical schools focused on diagnosis, the art--and as Thomas describes it, it was an art--of determining an ailment from a few external symptoms. They learned how to recognize illnesses without being able to treat them...
Such permissive governmental attitudes towards regulating manmade carcinogens reflects the fundamental misdirection of the fight against cancer. An emphasis on clinical research reflects the hope that research will uncover a cure for cancer--a "magic bullet" which will home in on the cancerous tissue. Cancer, though, is not one disease but many. The wide variety of types of cancer suggests a whole gamut of causes. The philosophical reductionist approach which has characterized medical research--he effort to pinpoint a specific mechanism rather than to look at the whole body--has led to the unrealistic but seductive hope that the cure...
...negative media blitz against the Society escalated just after it began to establish a sense of legitimacy the public had never before allowed. Since then, the Society has tried to rebuild itself by softening some of its earlier stances while still maintaining that a decentralized powerless national government will cure society's ills...
...stressed the need for a "bipartisan spirit" of unity. It offered compassion rather than rigid ideology to those suffering from the recession, and it had soothing words for women, blacks, the elderly and others who have felt slighted by the Administration. There was even what seemed a bold cure for the dozen-digit deficit plaguing the economy: a "freeze" on the overall level of Government spending...