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...paused the movie and began in my best doctor-mom way to explain that scarlet fever occurs when you have strep throat and the strep germs in your throat migrate to your skin. The girls were even more frightened. Each of them had had strep throat - could they have almost died? I reassured them that Beth March had nearly died because doctors in the 19th century, unlike today, didn't have medicine for strep throat and scarlet fever. They calmed down and we were able to return to the movie...
Concerned legislators around the U.S. have been looking for ways to enforce this recommendation. Last month New Jersey became the third state to prohibit children under 14 from using tanning parlors. New Hampshire and North Carolina require a doctor's consent for patrons in that age group, while Wisconsin has banned indoor tanning for anyone under 16. Many states require parents' permission for teenage customers. A bill requiring written consent for those under 18 is working its way through the legislature in Pennsylvania, which leads the nation in number of professional tanning salons, with an estimated...
...reports about the treatment of suspected terrorists at Guantánamo Bay are deeply disturbing [July 10]. The practice of restraining a person in a padded chair in order to force-feed him via a nasogastric tube is revolting. As a doctor, I am shocked that our government would abuse someone in such a way; as a Muslim, I am frightened that presumed religious fundamentalists have been so psychologically and physically tortured that they have tried to kill themselves (suicide, according to Islam, sends one straight to hell); and as a U.S. citizen, I am upset and find it morally...
...institution before the man even learned he existed. That anecdote became the seed of The Memory Keeper's Daughter, which begins one snowy night in 1964 with the birth of a pair of twins. One is a healthy boy, Paul, the other is a girl with Down syndrome. The doctor, who is also the father, makes a well-intentioned but fateful decision: he gives his daughter to a nurse with instructions that the baby be taken to an institution, and he tells his wife that the little girl died...
...many stories like hers. For example, in 1994, a Congolese man died after being jailed for complaining about inadequate food rations. Through coercion, intimidation, inaccessibility, and inaction, the people of Meheba are cheated out of their right to complain. In a refugee camp with 14,000 people, no doctor, and inadequate resources, the most glaring human rights abuse is not the abysmal living conditions, but the refugees’ inability to protest or speak up about the problems in their lives.Officially, my job here is to deliver computer literacy and journalism workshops. Unofficially, I am approached every day by countless...