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...nursing as his major. "They said, 'You're so much better than that,'" he says. Strumph, 27, had his priorities. His volunteer work as a paramedic attracted him to the medical field, but as the single parent of an 8-year-old boy, he wanted the flexible schedule a doctor doesn't have. Plus, he says, "doctors give orders and plan someone's care, but it's the nurses who actually make them better." While his frat brothers scrambled for scarce jobs in finance and technology, Strumph had three offers before he graduated in 2001. With extra shifts...
That macho attitude seems to extend to the care men take of their bodies. Women are twice as likely as men to visit their doctor once a year and more likely to explore broad-based preventive health plans with their physician. Men are less likely to schedule checkups or to follow up when symptoms arise. "Men also tend to internalize" and "self-medicate" their psychological problems, says Williams, while women tend to seek professional help. Virtually all stress-related diseases--from hypertension to heart disease--are more common...
...thin cotton mask and makeshift welder's goggles, Dr. Li Li guards China's shifting front line against the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic. The young doctor oversees a new fever ward at the medical clinic in Biange township in central China's largely rural Hebei province, and he's dangerously unprepared for an outbreak of the disease. A chronic funding shortage means his clinic lacks even enough surgical masks. Behind him, workers erect a flimsy Plexiglas shield across a hallway to create an isolation ward where one patient already lies feverish. Asked if his facility can cope with...
...city's "SARS-free" reputation at any cost. "All I have been told is that we must maintain the image of Shanghai as a place without a SARS problem," says a Shanghai health official. The government admitted to two confirmed and 15 suspected cases in the city, but local doctors--who say they have been threatened with dismissal if they speak to foreign journalists--are voicing doubts about that figure. A doctor at the Shanghai Contagious Diseases Hospital told TIME that there were more than 30 suspected cases checked into his hospital alone. In a press conference last Friday, visiting...
...infections and fatalities. If the numbers are lower than yesterday, we cling to the hope the worst is over. If there are more new cases and deaths, we shudder. But then I find out one of the newly infected is a co-worker's father or a doctor who once treated my sick daughter, and the fear and worry are reduced again to the real story behind this outbreak: one man, in an intensive-care ward, hooked up to a respirator, gasping for breath, fighting for his life. It is a horrible death to witness, one doctor told me, like...