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China has a long history of not facing up to its medical problems, but a few doctors are overcoming the fear of losing their jobs to talk about cover-ups. Jiang Yanyong, a retired military doctor who spoke out about inaccurate reporting in one hospital, says he was outraged that China's Ministry of Health reported only 12 Beijing SARS cases and three deaths in early April. According to Jiang, Beijing military hospitals suffered their first SARS death in early March, just as the city was hosting the politically sensitive National People's Congress. Health authorities quickly called an emergency...
...where the practice is legal - for patients suffering "intolerable health problems." (In Belgium, by contrast, patients must be terminally ill.) Assuming their experience was like that of their other clients, the Dignitas staff then took the Stokes to see founder Ludwig Minelli, to verify their wish to die. A doctor who had reviewed their records prescribed a toxic dose of barbiturates, and the couple was taken to a bare apartment in Zurich. They likely lay down upon two single beds, ate some Swiss chocolate to help them swallow a bitter anti-vomiting medication, and then drank the barbiturate cocktail. Within...
...whole family. All, that is, except for the canny grandmother, who tells Aurora she is doomed to act out one of the oldest stories in the book; the one where the bad boy makes good, the couple settles into domestic bliss and she forgets her dream of becoming a doctor. Aurora promptly dumps him with a farewell note; the boy soaks himself with petrol and uses the note to ignite it. She is wracked with remorse and everyone blames her; he recovers, only to realize he always had a fancy for another girl, famed for having two sets of teeth...
...celebrations marking the 40th anniversary of the East German state when she catches sight of her son in an antigovernment demonstration. She collapses from a heart attack and falls into a coma. When she regains consciousness eight months later, the communist world has been swept away - but her doctor warns her son that any stress could trigger another heart attack. So he hatches an elaborate plot to convince her that her beloved German Democratic Republic still exists. In Germany, the fall of the Berlin Wall has rarely been played for laughs. But a new film, Goodbye Lenin!, is packing cinemas...
Rlickman was born in Bluefield, W. Va., in 1951, to a Jewish doctor and a musician who fled Germany during World War II. One of seven children, Rlickman joined the Marine Corps after high school and served in Vietnam...