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...traditional one-on-one counseling or therapy is not welcomed by many Harvard students, and seeking counseling unfortunately holds a stigma among many undergraduates. Students should be helped to understand that self-reflection is not limited to the stereotypical vision of a patient lying on a couch while a doctor looms in the corner taking notes. Encouraging engagement with profound questions in a group setting will lend legitimacy to students’ moral queries and create an intellectually-charged forum for introspection. The benefit that these groups could have on students will not only be the generation of a sense...
...Doctor's Orders Dr. Sanjay Gupta reported on a study that concluded that alcohol and exercise may help your heart [Feb. 11]. Among other things, it found that those of us who exercise and don't drink alcohol are no better off than couch potatoes who drink moderately. This does not pass the smell test. I'm 61 years old, have exercised since high school and just don't like the taste of alcohol. I can probably outwalk drinking nonexercisers half my age, including those researchers. Danny Bernstein, ASHEVILLE...
...dean exercise broad oversight of the undergraduate curriculum in addition to overseeing the College more broadly.” For the Dean of the College, long hampered by restricted jurisdiction and mandated deference to more senior administrators, “broader oversight” sounds like just what the doctor ordered.If the position of dean of the College is indeed to receive a much-needed infusion of authority and autonomy—which we hope is the case—then Hammonds is the ideal candidate to occupy this role. The learning curve before her is steep, but considering...
...Last Friday night at a game hosted by a team from Achrafieyeh, a Christian neighborhood in Beirut, the home crowd shouted: "God, Achrafieyeh and the Doctor!" in reference to a Christian leader who once attended medical school. They also tried to distract a rival player with a gay slur intended to be particularly insulting to Muslims. "Toot, toot, toot! Khaled is a fruit...
...Listening to Prozac”—which stated, deceptively, that Prozac could not only make depressed people feel better, but that it could make people feel “better than well!”—dozens of writers, doctor and layperson alike, have jumped on the “overmedication” bandwagon. Americans, they declare, have been duped by pharmaceutical companies and doctors into believing that the everyday downs and disappointments that come with being human are not only undesirable, but unhealthy and altogether avoidable. They seem to imagine that doctors across the country...