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...sure it’ll be probably a week-to-week situation...I think he’s got some kind of upper body injury...I think it’s either the ribs or the cartilage or the muscle in that area. He went to see the doctor [Tuesday] and I haven’t talked to the trainers...
...never in a Petri dish, but at one stage I was that little cluster of cells myself, as were you, as was the doctor, as is everybody. Tell me anybody who wasn't that at some point in their development, and I'll give you a cigar...
...cohort have taught TV new visual tricks, raised its production standards and perhaps shown the dinosaur networks a way to survive the swarm of nimble cable competitors. The CSIs have made network drama more consistent. But they have also--cop show after doctor-cop show after military-cop show--made it more homogeneous. They have taught TV to tell entertaining, simple stories without dumbing them down--and left the networks uninterested in much besides simple stories. The CSI effect has produced TV that looks 21st century but is as conventional as a rerun of Mannix. In some ways...
...your doctor's medical judgment swayed by the freebies handed out by drug companies? Yes--and the problem is much worse than you realize, according to Dr. Jerome Kassirer, former editor in chief of the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine. In his latest book, On the Take: How Medicine's Complicity with Big Business Can Endanger Your Health, he argues that so many medical experts accept money from pharmaceutical firms, it is nearly impossible at times to determine when advice is truly independent. Kassirer lays out the extent of the largesse--all of it legal--that drug companies lavish...
...Brattle’s Ingmar Bergman festival continues with the story of a 19th century conjurer-hypnotist, played by Bergman repertory player and Exorcist priest Max Von Sydow, traveling throughout shadowy Sweden along with his troupe of repertory performers. After falling into the hands of a grand inquisitor, a doctor decides it his professional responsibility to expose Sydow as a charlatan and the two sides clash in a brilliantly evocative philosophical duel between art and science, rationality and irrationality, believer and non believer. It all climaxes in a beautifully destructive sequence that reduces the once proud doctor to his bare...