Word: doctores
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...Fitzgerald in the initial stages. The ending rewrites any kind of expectation that we may have held in our minds, given that these two men were once rivals in love, and gives a depthless generosity to the story. It is also marked by a wry sense of humor: the doctor treating Fitzgerald doesn't know that the patient's tremors are the withdrawal symptoms of an alcoholic so he charts them as an atypical symptom of the new disease...
...Those who have had a serious illness or condition will know the great investment of hope in seeing a doctor - that enormous leap of faith and confidence. Here's a ringside view of the other side as it deals with that leap, the side we never get to see. We may not be comfortable with the fact, but from many doctors' perspectives the most obvious issues are exhaustion and overwork. Emergency-room patients are dryly referred to as "volumes" because of "the way they fill our fixed space" and because of "the volume of noise that we actually hear...
...pitch-perfect expression of the racial anger of many American blacks - as he did in his much discussed speech on race relations earlier this year - and, just as smoothly, unpack the racial irritations gnawing at many whites. To what extent does he share any of those emotions? The doctor never exactly says...
...Woodstock to an 8-year-old in Indonesia? The Pill, Vietnam, race riots, prayer in school and campus unrest - forces like these and the culture clashes they unleashed have dominated American politics for more than 40 years. But Obama approaches these forces historically, anthropologically - and in his characteristic doctor-with-a-notepad style. In The Audacity of Hope, he writes about the culture wars in the same faraway tone he might use for the Peloponnesian Wars. ("By the time the '60s rolled around, many mainstream Protestant and Catholic leaders had concluded," etc.) These fights belong to that peculiar category...
...home prices down; with Washington impotent to tackle issues like health care, energy and Social Security; with politics mired in a fifty-fifty standoff between two unpopular parties - plenty of Americans are ready to try a new cure. But will they come to believe that this new doctor, this charismatic mystery, this puzzle, is the one they can trust to prescribe...