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...There are other forms of self-immolation, less instantaneous and less spectacular, to which doctors may not contribute. Drug taking, for example. One could say, The patient wants it, and he knows the risks - why not give him what he wants? No. The doctor is there to help save a suffering soul from the ravages of a failing body. He is not there to ravage a healthy body in the service of a sick and self-destructive soul...
...sprinkle their work with literary references--doesn't Nelly's Hot in Herre owe something to Goethe? But legendary lyricist BOB DYLAN may have taken more than inspiration for his aptly titled 2001 Grammy-winning album, Love and Theft, from a little-known Japanese writer named Junichi Saga. A doctor and author of 15 books, Saga told TIME he was "filled with surprise and true joy" when he learned from a reporter at that frothy Dylan fanzine, the Wall Street Journal, that some of the singer's lyrics match passages in Saga's 1989 book, Confessions of a Yakuza. Dylan...
Until recently, most doctors believed that peanut allergies, which affect some 1.5 million Americans and can be deadly, were a lifelong affliction. Now it turns out that some people outgrow them. As part of an ongoing study of peanut intolerance, Johns Hopkins researchers gave 80 allergic children a "peanut challenge"--that is, they made them eat peanuts. More than half the kids passed the test, suffering none of the common allergy symptoms, such as hives, vomiting or swelling of the face and lips. The study, published in this month's Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, looked at children with...
...regrets and second guesses, it is hard to see how the answer could have been anything but yes. The foundation of the medical vocation is that the doctor is servant to the patient's will. Not always, of course. There are times when the doctor must say no. This was not such a time...
There are other forms of self-immolation, less instantaneous and less spectacular, to which doctors may not contribute. Drug taking, for example. One could say, The patient wants it, and he knows the risks--why not give him what he wants? No. The doctor is there to help save a suffering soul from the ravages of a failing body. He is not there to ravage a healthy body in the service of a sick and self-destructive soul...