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...brain surgery, a DBS procedure can be a surprisingly relaxed thing. On a recent morning in Cleveland, Scott Stipp, 55, a businessman and Parkinson's patient, lies lightly sedated on an operating table while Rezai and a team of surgeons drill a hole about as large as a dime in the crown of his head. Rezai then threads a wire just 4 microns thick--or four-thousandths of a millimeter--into Stipp's brain. Guided in part by CT scans and in part by real-time readings of electrical activity that the probe encounters as it passes different neural structures...
...linger to take care of, when they could be home with their kids. We continue to study the journals and the books for patients, even when we're 60 and can barely see the words on a page anymore. We take them on knowing they won't pay a dime, knowing they're going to complain, knowing their prognosis stinks. We know how vulnerable patients are - that they literally lie open to us - and that our oath is to do for them what is best. And the best is often not that which "satisfies." To stop giving a narcotic...
...Some would argue that Fernanda should not have been schooled on our dime in the first place. But the reality is that Fernanda is here in the U.S. to stay. She's not going back to Mexico. Amnesty would offer millions like her a fighting chance at self-sufficiency and social mobility...
...opportunities that came his way. “Harvard won’t give you anything, you have to take it,” he says. And Ravishankara has taken advantage of a lot Harvard has to offer. He shot movies on 16mm film on Harvard’s dime, earned a secondary field degree in VES, and met friends that truly inspired him. “There is this incredible diversity in people that go here and the opportunities available,” he says. Dern, of recent reality-TV fame, says he and Ravishankara recognized something in each...
...market, and we at the most elite universities are lucky to be at institutions where admission is becoming more and more of a daunting task. Our lives look relatively easy on the surface: We live with our friends in an intellectual environment—on our parents’ dime, no less—with few pressures or worries lasting longer than a semester...