Word: doctor
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Your thesis--it's your baby. You even have a doctor on call, your adviser. Regardless, this entity can keep you up at night in worry, tending to it, reading...
...believe in ADHD and thought maybe she and Tim were just being hard on Erin. "I thought, 'Maybe there is something else we can do,'" Charlene says. "I knew that medicine can mask things. So I tore up the prescription." Tim thought that it was possible the doctor's diagnosis was too hasty and didn't want to believe it. "Part of us said, 'How can he look at a kid for 15 minutes and judge?'" Says Charlene: "I believed she had ADHD, but I knew we needed a two-pronged approach...
...Even doctors who think ADHD may be underdiagnosed and are convinced of Ritalin's broad benefits emphasize the need to integrate drugs and behavior therapy. But it doesn't matter that children benefit from a multifaceted response if their health insurance won't pay for it. The trend over the past few years has been clear: the percentage of children with an ADHD diagnosis walking out of a doctor's office with a prescription jumped from 55% in 1989 to 75% in 1996. The number receiving psychotherapy fell from 40% in 1989 to 25% in 1996. "The reason Ritalin...
...stomach is still a little puffy. There are no marks on it, but I can bunch it up in my hands," is the first hint we get that the unnamed letter writer has been pregnant. By the time she tells her doctor dad that she had a baby and put it up for adoption, she knows his secret: the "specials," as he calls some of his patients, are young women who have traveled long distances to get illegal abortions. From there, the father-daughter ironies gather for a stoic conclusion...
...morbid snapshot in her 16th novel, Master Georgie (Carroll & Graf; 190 pages; $21), a deadpan tale of secrets and lies set in Liverpool and the Crimea in the 1840s and '50s. The story is told in alternating chapters by three characters: Myrtle, an orphan, in love with George, a doctor and amateur photographer; Pompey Jones, George's ambitious photo assistant and sometime lover; and Dr. Potter, an eccentric geologist. Each in the grip of a private obsession, the three follow George to the Crimean War--the first conflict to be covered by photographers--and all three witness scenes of horror...