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...don’t think I’ll ever be confused with an Adrenaline Junkie (wearing white socks with brown shoes is about the extent of my X-Treme sports life). However, the occasional speed rush is just what the doctor ordered when I begin to lose sight of my priorities. It is way too easy in these gray days (fellow sufferers of Seasonal Affective Disorder will understand) to obsess about minutiae that really doesn’t deserve that much attention. Expos essays and problem sets have their place—don’t get me wrong?...
...conclusion of her talk, Stein, who is a medical doctor, practiced her bedside manner on the group, asking those in the room to share with her their individual concerns...
...Muslim holiday of Eid dawns in Kabul, but Karzai won't be spending time with his family. His 28-year-old wife, an Afghan doctor, is still living in the Pakistan town of Quetta. Karzai jokes that she is staying put until he finds a decent place to live. Colleagues say he is concerned about her security and that of friends. "Imagine that once you had to live in a jungle full of wild beasts," he says. "Afterward, it takes a while to stop thinking that those beasts are still out there." Many Afghans are convinced that fearsome creatures...
...billion in federal aid they were asking for last week to cover this year's Medicaid shortfalls. Mississippi may be in the direst straits; its Medicaid program ran out of money entirely last Friday, as lawmakers argued over an array of unpalatable options, ranging from a 5% reduction in doctor reimbursements to sharply cutting back on services...
...their own have fewer and fewer realistic alternatives. In the Chicago area, Kimberly Godboldt, 25, an office manager who is a single mother of two, got a $10-an-hour raise in January, only to find that she then earned too much to qualify for Medicaid. Her employer, a doctor's office, does not have a health plan. The best deal she could find on private insurance was $400 a month, and because of recent cuts in Illinois's CHIP program, someone at Godboldt's income level would have to pay a monthly deductible of $2,300. She recently...