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...Ramone and Doc Holiday were still rookie cops when dead kids began appearing in D.C. gardens with a bullet hole in their temple and someone else's DNA where it should not be. Twenty years later, Ramone is a homicide detective and Holiday a limo driver (forced out on a morals charge by his ex-partner) when a new body turns up that fits the old M.O. Pelecanos has mellowed in his 14th novel--he's less gratuitously violent, more attuned to emotional subtext--but his prose has lost none of its street cred or bite. A ghetto bully...
Three survivors from the Suribachi event--John (Doc) Bradley (Ryan Phillippe), Rene Gagnon (Jesse Bradford) and Ira Hayes (Adam Beach)--are brought home to receive a nation's thanks and to charm the citizens into buying more war bonds. In a packed arena the three re-enact the raising on an imitation Iwo Jima; at a banquet they are served an iced dessert in the shape of the photo. Uncomfortable with praise they never asked for, guilt ridden that they are home and their buddies fighting and dying abroad, they know that the Iwo Jima image is simply an inspirational...
...driven essentially means it doesn't matter what we do or say to patients as long as they feel satisfied by their interaction with us. When the problem is complex and the best treatment mediocre, it's far more profitable to smile, cajole and refer on to the next doc. The next doc might actually do the heavy lifting of explaining and living with a difficult patient or, as was done times six in Anna's case, he too might keep it light and pleasant, do his thing and say goodbye...
...very inefficient, and - when you add it all up - a lot more expensive than giving one good doc a good fee for taking good care of a person who continues to be his or her patient...
...only a few, and those initially rejected can usually talk their way in. Oh yeah, writing skills might help.It’s often a crapshoot whether you’ll get to be in the vicinity of a senior or junior faculty member or a lecturer or post-doc. Like profs, post-docs act as sophomore and junior tutorial leaders and can be either exceedingly good or exceedingly bad. Let the risk-averse take note. It’s often arbitrary whether you’ll get a good or bad draw (either the sophomore tutorial with a fantabulous...