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Unfortunately, the psychological element in chronic pain has often led physicians to dismiss their patients' complaints. Says Fields: "Many doctors and nurses believe that if a person responds to a placebo, the pain can't be very bad. This is a terrible mistake." Only about 5% of chronic pain patients are hypochondriacs or hysterics, according to Psychiatrist Anthony Bouckoms of Massachusetts General Hospital. "Pain itself is the reason people suffer; it is not psychopathology," he avers. And yet the most frequent question Bouckoms hears from pain patients is: "Tell me, doctor, is it all in my head...
...colleges have asked me to describe my greatest disappointment at Harvard. To their suprise (and dismay), it is not the lack of contact with big name professors. (I actually had lunch with Galbraith three years ago). For me, the greatest disappointment has been the facility with which some students dismiss others, the degree to which convenience regulates relationships for so many people here. What disturbs me most, though, is when I see myself doing the same...
...Herschel Shawmut has been reminded of his offense by a former friend, who has mailed him a blistering attack on what he was and what he has become: Shawmut the poseur, the TV huckster of musicology for the masses, the rich author of a popular textbook. The accused can dismiss these charges as spiteful, but he cannot deny that he is, nearing 70, a fugitive from U.S. justice hiding out in British Columbia. That, Miss Rose, is what he would really like to explain: it is a complicated and terribly funny story...
...Administration had hurriedly declared on April 6 that it would not recognize the court's jurisdiction over the issue, which arose after revelations that the CIA had actively helped mine Nicaraguan harbors. But Washington's lawyers joined in the legal fray after the court refused to dismiss the Nicaraguan plea. Whatever else might ensue, the Nicaraguans seemed to have won an initial propaganda victory by forcing the U.S. to appear before the United NationsŸsponsored body...
...discourage publication of the book, Wallace responds, "Everyone says this will increase sales." He is probably right. But given Kowet's own admissions about his failing to double-check some of the facts, questions about the accuracy of many of the scenes he describes are difficult to dismiss...