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Just by listening through a stethoscope to the sounds inside your chest, a well-practiced doctor can tell whether a valve in your heart is leaky, you have a touch of pneumonia in your lungs or your heart isn't pumping as much blood as your body needs. In many cases, a subtle change in the pattern of bodily noises can alert your physician to problems long before symptoms appear. Unfortunately, the art of auscultation, the technical term for listening to those sounds, is slowly dying. Seasoned physicians complain that their younger colleagues are simply more comfortable ordering high-tech...
...does one prepare to become one of modern history's most notorious dictators? "I learned the accordion," says FOREST WHITAKER, who plays the former Ugandan despot Idi Amin in the upcoming political drama The Last King of Scotland. The film follows a Scottish doctor who becomes Amin's personal physician. Whitaker also studied Swahili, met Amin's family and some of his former generals and visited the East African nation's palaces and temples. "Most people think of [Amin] as a monster," says the actor. "But he was funny, charming, passionate and flamboyant." Maybe. Since he's responsible...
...skate in Torino in pursuit of Olympic gold, the only medal to have eluded her. She is petitioning the USFSA for one of three spots on the ladies' team, and her fate will be decided on January 14, immediately after the ladies' event at nationals. Kwan said her doctor cleared her to begin jumping on January 13, barely enough time to prove she will be ready to compete in Torino. "I believe I will be 100% for the Olympics, and I feel that I have a shot to win," she said in a teleconference with reporters on Wednesday. "That...
...strike would have grave effects.“I think the first day of a strike there’s a sense of camaraderie and an obligation to fulfill responsibility that keeps people’s tempers occupied,” said Herbert A. Hochman, an Upper East Side doctor. “But after the first day, when people begin to suffer more, there’s a larger sense of frustration.”—Staff writer Claire M. Guehenno may be reached at guehenno@fas.harvard.edu...
...final question. "You go to the doctor. You feel perfectly healthy. Again the doctor explains that you have a serious illness. But this time the doctor says, 'You have only 24 hours to live.' What did you miss? Who did you not get to be? What did you not get to do?" The room was silent. After a while, each planner jotted down a phrase...