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...logo and loose blue trousers--and seated across a desk from Dr. Richard Lang, section head of preventive medicine at Cleveland Clinic and my internist for the day. With unexpected deliberation, given the harried pace of American medicine, he spends the next hour questioning me--work, family, stresses, satisfactions, diet, diseases, sex life--progressing from the general to the specific. The goal of his detective work is to elicit hints of any underlying conditions. "Most of my patients are male executives," he explains. "They don't share; they don't ventilate. This is an opportunity for them...
...asks me about my medical concerns. I tell him about the two kidney-stone attacks over the past five years that sent me writhing in pain to hospital emergency rooms. I happen to mention an increased sensitivity to salt in my diet, resulting in a parched mouth, information that he dutifully jots down in my chart while observing, "Maybe your body is talking to you." Then he tells me that salt tends to precipitate calcium, a common component of kidney stones, out of the bloodstream into the kidneys. He informs me that excessive vitamin C can do the same thing...
...escaped me, a registered nurse for more than 20 years, that the majority of patients with cancer and other chronic illnesses subscribe to the classic American diet. It is increasingly difficult to support diets that are meat, dairy and egg based. Scientific literature is full of reports by unbiased researchers not funded by any special interests who recommend little to none of these products. ROBIN KIRSCHNER, R.N. Olney...
Aren't you media people the ones who gave us all the hype about the diet drugs fen/phen and Redux, which turned out to have a dark side? I see no apology for that coverage, and little caution in the current frenzy over Viagra. RICHARD WILLIAM SPENCER Warwick, Australia...
Lovers of poetry in the pre-Modernist era had been surviving on a thin diet of either Platonic idealism or a post-'90s "decadence," and it was felt that barbaric and businesslike America could not equal the sophistication of England. Eliot's vignettes of modern life (some sardonic, some elegiac), and his meditation on consciousness and its aridities, reclaimed for American poetry a terrain of close observation and complex intelligence that had seemed lost. The heartbreak under the poised irony of Eliot's work was not lost on his audience, who suddenly felt that in understanding Eliot, they understood themselves...