Word: doctor
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Breast cancer is one of those illnesses that it pays to know at least as much about as your doctor does. There's always a new study, a conflicting report or an experimental treatment to consider. Take last week's carefully worded advice about two anticancer drugs sent to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration by a panel of experts. If you don't pay close attention to the details, you could wind up doing yourself more harm than good...
...program plots millions of words in a "high-dimensional space"; synonyms are close together, while words rarely used in combination are far apart. That allows the software to recognize synonyms, making no distinction between "doctor" and "physician," for instance...
Both Charles and the Queen have instigated shakeups in their staffs and their activities. The Queen is bringing in a new director of communications at Buckingham Palace, and Charles appointed a new deputy private secretary, Mark Bolland, who has extensive media contacts and is a friend of Blair spin doctor Peter Mandelson. The Queen has taken to making George Bush-like visits to such places as supermarkets, McDonald's, even a pub; bucking some 800 centuries of tradition, she has also agreed to do away with primogeniture (in which the eldest son receives the title in favor of an older...
...contrast to that sense of irremediable loss, Verghese delivers a more affirmative view of the understandings that arise from heartbreak. With his first book, My Own Country (also in 1994), he won prizes and best-seller status with his humane account of being a foreign doctor tending to AIDS patients in Bible Belt Tennessee at a time when neither homosexuality nor drug abuse was much acknowledged. Now he has turned to the fault lines in himself and in a profession that encourages its practitioners to believe that "M.D. stood for M. Deity...
...your article about patients and doctors exchanging e-mail is true [PERSONAL TIME: YOUR HEALTH, Aug. 17], and people really believe communication has opened up, then I guess everything we physicians were taught in med school about interpreting nonverbal cues and other interactive signals during an examination was useless. You suggested limiting e-mail to "routine inquiries" such as requests for referral. This would indicate that a particularly complicated medical problem has arisen, demanding a thorough clinical investigation by a person's present doctor. Motives of both patients and physicians willing to carry out such a complex interaction...