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...reason is that the typical doctor visit - even in wealthy nations - is quite short, usually no longer than 15 minutes. It's hard for patients, who may already be reluctant to discuss depression, to open up about their symptoms during that brief period. The authors of the paper suggest that doctors should spend more time or schedule follow-up appointments with patients they suspect have depression; research has shown that such follow-ups can dramatically increase the rate of accurate diagnoses...
...Whalen declined to discuss specifics of what she saw at the scene and if there was a commotion. She told reporters that she was born in the United States and is of Portuguese descent, and that she knew of Gates but failed to recognize him when making the 911 call...
...seeking to dial down the racial tension surrounding black Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s July 16 arrest by a white police officer. On July 30, Gates and the arresting officer, Sergeant James Crowley, will meet with Obama at the White House to have a beer and discuss the maybe-racist-maybe-not incident in which the three men find themselves entangled. Anticipatory news reports of the drinking session have included a seemingly bizarre fact: the White House only serves domestic, or American-made, beer. A report in the Boston Globe claimed that the patriotic policy has been...
...country, it’s erroneous to place too much emphasis on any one person or group when we discuss familial allegiance and social organization. As Americans, we readily admit the individualistic nature of our citizenry: 18-year-olds eagerly await the day they can move out of the homes of their parents—with whom they share a last name—to live on their own, for example. And relatives who reside in different cities or states can go without seeing other family members for months at a time, until holidays once or twice a year?...
...second area where we still haven't arrived at agreement had to do with the public option, and we've already started to discuss that. There is just a - not only an ideological suspicion of the public option on the part of many Republicans, but many of them also saw it as an opportunity to try to resurrect the old scare tactic of government-run health care, socialized medicine, eliminating your ability to choose your own doctor. That was going to exist regardless of whatever tactics we employed...