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...Once he'd committed, Taniguchi spent a year studying MOMA?its history, how it had selected architects in the past, anything that could provide an insight into the museum's inner character. "Like a medical doctor, I need to know the nature of an institution so I can make a proper diagnosis," he says. Taniguchi then crafted a proposal that offered both an expansion and a continuation of the museum's identity: the fundamentally conservative worldwide arbiter of serious, modern fine arts. In doing so, he created a radically understated counterpoint to the increasingly hyperbolic, maximalist trends in museum architecture...
...House works because the doctor's a lout...
House is, in other words, the opposite of what a TV doctor is supposed to be--and the most enjoyable new character of the fall. Without him, House (Fox, Tuesdays, 9 p.m. E.T.) could have been a bland disease-of-the-week exercise like NBC's stultifying Medical Investigation. Every week House and the staff at a New Jersey university hospital treat a different mystery illness. But House is working under protest, forced by his hospital administrator (Lisa Edelstein) to spend a few hours a week seeing actual patients face to face. Hobbled by an excruciating leg condition, he pops...
...routine checkups last week, and both the eye doctor and the dentist asked me to update my health history for their records. Their requests made sense. Health-care providers should know what problems their patients have had and what medications they're taking to be on the lookout for potential trouble or complications...
...each history, however, the section labeled FAMILY HEALTH HISTORY gave me pause. Few diseases are purely genetic, but plenty have genetic components. If my father suffered from elevated LDL, or bad cholesterol, my doctor should know that, because I'm probably at higher risk. If my mother had breast cancer, my sister (if I had one) would want her physician to be especially vigilant...