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...northern India and moved to the U.S., where he joined Siemens in 1989. There he worked closely with Kleinfeld and has been one of the people driving Siemens' development of medical scanners that use digital image processing for the early detection of disease. Singh explains that a doctor could take digital images of a beating heart and compare them with images of a healthy heart and determine if there is an anomaly, often long before symptoms of an impending heart attack appear. Last year he moved from San Francisco to Erlangen, Germany, to run Siemens' global image- and knowledge-management...
...speaking out against an Italian Parliament bill to allow civil unions for gay couples. But perhaps the most visceral criticism came when the Church denied Catholic funeral rites to an Italian victim of Lou Gehrig?s disease, named Piergiorgio Welby, who had campaigned for euthanasia before dying when a doctor unplugged his respirator...
...enormous effort is now made applying business methods to American medicine - making money by reducing what doctors and nurses do to flow charts. Thousands more business people every year make money "reducing costs" in medicine. It has worked out well for many; the CEO of one of our larger HMOs took home over a billion dollars last year. These people know they can slice up and squeeze the money out of the doctor-patient relationship only if it's reduced to a lifeless, mechanical emulation - an algorithm. But it's more complex and beautiful than those without feeling and judgment...
...silver screen. “I am excited to move to L.A. to begin my career,” he says. “But I am also nervous about my potential to get discouraged. It will take time to build a career. Acting is not like becoming a doctor, which always includes the same things: medical school, the MCAT, internship, residency. There is no formula for becoming an actor, so there are many different kinds of success.” “I am an intelligent and trained enough actor that I think I know what...
...remember trying to beat the draft during reading period,” he says. On a combination of No-Doz, caffeine, over-the-counter-drugs, and other substances, Adams tried to stay up for days prior to his medical screening to make the army doctor believe he had some type of disorder.“I had destroyed my nervous system on no sleep, controlled substances and looked like a frightful mess,” he says. Noticing something amiss, the army doctor asked Adams to return for repeated visits. Adams had 15 physicals in total. On this extended regiment...