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Of the few hundred patients I've told about that paper over the past five months, not one has chosen to undergo surgery. Real patients are scared of being cut open, of getting infections, not waking up, becoming paralyzed. They're scared of the pain. And they don't care...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Statistical Studies vs. Good Medicine | 8/12/2008 | See Source »

We must, at last, step where we cannot see. We are made like this - there is only so much an individual can truly understand. And there is always a point in decision-making at which reason fails (funny enough, this was actually proven, mathematically, by the 25-year-old logician...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Statistical Studies vs. Good Medicine | 8/12/2008 | See Source »

But some cites are doing things right, Klein says, and setting a constructive example. Ten years ago, Los Angeles County implemented a grade-card system that requires restaurants to display letter grades given to them by health inspectors. Restaurants that score 90 or above on the 100-point health-inspection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dirty Restaurants: Sounding an Alarm | 8/11/2008 | See Source »

Which also means that for one night, he became the most visible, and influential, Sudanese man in the world. And in the run-up to these Olympics, China has faced fierce criticism for its support of the Sudanese government, which has sponsored atrocities in the Darfur region. Before war tore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Flag Man Stands Down | 8/8/2008 | See Source »

The other important agreement among the coalition partners was the decision to reinstate the judges Musharraf sacked. According to Zardari and Sharif's joint statement, all the judges will return to their original positions after an "executive order" has been passed. Until now, the issue threatened to split the delicately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Musharraf in the Crosshairs | 8/7/2008 | See Source »

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