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...wholesome is the WB's Everwood (Mondays, 9 p.m. E.T.). New York City neurosurgeon Andrew Brown (Treat Williams) is obsessed with his career until his wife dies in a car crash on her way to their son's piano recital, which Brown was too busy to attend. The doctor packs up 15-year-old Ephram (Gregory Smith) and 9-year-old Delia (Vivien Cardone) and moves to Everwood, Colo., a picturesque burg his wife once passed through and fell in love with. There, he grows a Grizzly Adams beard and sets up a free practice for the quirky folk that...
Even as a doctor, I sometimes have difficulty remembering which are the good fatty acids and which are the bad. So when McDonald's announced last week that it was changing its cooking oil--reducing trans-fatty acids 48% and increasing polyunsaturated fats 167%--I had to pull out an old textbook to make sure this was a good thing. It turns out it is. And more important, it's a step in the right direction for the fast-food industry...
...Genelle may be ignoring not just her scars but the wounds beneath. She spent a month in Bellevue Hospital Center after Sept. 11, and during her stay, doctors discovered signs of cervical cancer and a heart condition. What would have overwhelmed an ordinary patient barely fazed her. "I let the Lord lead me," she says. "He's my doctor. I saw the cardio doctor recently, and he was like, 'Oh, you have to take your medication [atenolol, to lower blood pressure]. You really must promise me you'll take it.' I was smiling. He said, 'You think of this...
...This was hypocrisy. Why is an Afghan's life worth any less than an American's?" she asks. She felt revulsion at the U.S. air strikes, which left hundreds of Afghans dead and thousands more wounded. One of Sana's classmates, Naomi Jamal, told how her mother, a doctor, had tended an Afghan woman in labor who had a piece of shrapnel the size of a spear tip lodged in her neck from an exploding U.S. bomb. The doctor was able to save the mother but not her newborn baby...
...brought plastic cuffs for Reid's hands, a seat-belt extension to tie up his feet. Passengers passed belts, headphone cords, anything they could find. (When the rerouted plane landed in Boston, Reid was so trussed up that the FBI had to cut him out of his seat.) A doctor on board was drafted to give him Valium, kept in the flight...