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...doubts." He won't speak of any personal tragedy - a question about his youth yields only a curt pointer back to the movie. "My childhood had no exile, no struggle, no trauma like the Behranis," he says. Kingsley was born Krishna Bhanji, the son of a Kenyan-Indian doctor and an English actress, in Yorkshire. In a 1989 Daily Express interview, he said that growing up mixed-race in the '50s made him "an oddity ... I was the darkie one." At 19, he saw Ian Holm's Richard III and realized that the stage would allow him to become anyone...
...Hamer reveals himself to be the most delicate of ironists, underplaying a sweet and most unusual love story. In Kitchen Stories a doctor, examining a patient, serenely smokes a cigarette with no comment made about the matter. There are dozens of similar moments in the film, and what a pleasure it is not to be hectored by a director as we laugh our own little laughs, watching a profound story unfold. --By Richard Schickel
...course, one factor we risk losing track of in all this is the healing power of the doctor as a human being willing to tune in to you. Dr. Colin Phoon, a pediatric cardiologist at the New York University School of Medicine, writes in a provocative essay titled "Must Doctors Still Examine Patients?" that being examined "has a calming effect on anxious patients, [and] a placebo effect on somatic but nonorganic complaints." Touch, we seem at risk of forgetting, is a basic part of the healing process, a fundamental expression of caring. Yes, an echocardiogram is technically better than...
...that brings us back to Dishman at Intel, who doesn't necessarily favor a fully automated health-care system devoid of the doctor-patient bond. He's not a technocrat by training or by nature. He's a sociologist who studies people--their needs and desires. "People didn't really embrace hearing aids until they became small enough not to be embarrassing," he says. That's even more the case with something as sensitive as incontinence--a problem, like so many, that technology can help solve, but only once we're willing to accept the cure...
...versions of the story "did not reflect the truth and were made under coercion," Rybkin wrote in a statement released at his press conference. "I was trying to protect the safety of my family and of myself." He added that he took a blood test in London and a doctor "gave me a preliminary opinion that perhaps not only was something poured into my tea or added to the food, but also a gas mask was very likely used." He made it clear he felt the Kremlin was complicit: "I don't know who kidnapped me," he said...