Word: doctor
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Pappas gets advice from Lisa Cosman, 60, a self-described nutritionist with no formal training or certification (only 23 states require licensing of dietitians and nutritionists) who relies on news accounts to keep abreast of new research. Cosman warns her clients to visit a doctor before taking herbs and fears that too many are searching for magic bullets. "My concern is that they are overhyping herbs," she says, "and missing the central idea that you must eat healthy...
...Shirley Palmer, 66, a Los Angeles writer who pops ginkgo and ginseng and a handful of vitamins on the say-so of friends and news reports. "I have no evidence that these things really work," Palmer says. "I take them on faith." But they keep her away from the doctor, she says, and that's good because "I don't have time to sit around waiting in doctors' offices." Like Palmer, millions of Americans are using ancient remedies to broaden the range of modern health-care choices. And these flowering gifts from the past can be powerful medicine--but handle...
...sure to tell your doctor what you're taking. According to last week's J.A.M.A., 15 million Americans take herbs at the same time as prescription medications. Yet 60% of patients don't tell their doctors that they are taking herbal remedies, which would at least allow the physicians to watch for potentially serious drug-herb interactions...
...have to admire the daring of a movie in which Meg Ryan playing a heart surgeon is not its most farfetched element. But both films pale in audacity next to What Dreams May Come, released last month to fair box-office returns and featuring Robin Williams as a doctor who dies and goes to heaven and then journeys to hell to rescue his wife. And yes, that makes a trend: unintentionally goofy metaphysical romances about death are the volcano movies...
Along the way there are intermittent pleasures: a nice updating of David Seville's Witch Doctor into a wild Tiki Room monkey jamboree; a sweet scene of Tommy and Dil learning to share a blanket. But the charm of the TV show has been coarsened and franticized. The film's writers (David N. Weiss and J. David Stem) and directors (Norton Virgien and Igor Kovalyov) have taken the Spielberg scenario as their template--children separated from their parents, then found--but this one has the harried air of The Goonies. And the film may have overestimated its hold...