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This is true of all fillers: the doctor you choose may be as important as the substance he or she uses. "Any material is only as good as the person who's injecting it," says Brandt. "Collagen put in the wrong area could actually accentuate wrinkles." On the other hand, dermatologists point out, a skilled technician may be able to transform your face over a lunch break...
...officials that the standards would not be changed. Then, last week, after the Ministry of Health had further broadened the national standards, he was again called in for a meeting with local health officials. "They said Shanghai was still being allowed to stick to the old standards," recalls the doctor. "They said Shanghai was an exception and that was agreed to by the Ministry of Health." That means that before classifying a patient as a suspected SARS case, the Shanghai Municipal Health Bureau requires that person to have either traveled to a SARS-infected area or had known contact with...
...Nanzhao in Hebei. There, the local clinic contains a wooden desk, several threadbare chairs and a bookshelf lined with antibiotics, steroids and painkillers. In most countries, such potent medications can only be dispensed by qualified specialists, but for the clinic they represent a revenue stream to a former barefoot doctor with no medical degree. The sole way of covering expenses at a place like this is to "charge for medicine," says village chief Li Jinghua. So medical workers often prescribe them unnecessarily. According to UNICEF, 60% of China's health-care spending goes to drugs, compared with the worldwide average...
...ready to come back,” Lehe said. “The doctor told me I had to wait three or four days. Beyond that point, I didn’t really feel like I had an excuse not to row. Also, for purely personal reasons, I wouldn’t know what to do with myself...
Scott Lee ’03, who wrote his Hoopes-worthy religion and social anthropology thesis on “Contested meanings, Contested Lives: Interpretations of AIDS-Apparent Illness in Western Kenya,” said he ultimately hopes to pursue a career as a doctor in Kenya...