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This exchange took place last week, when Louisa Hall, the junior co-captain and No. 1 player on Harvard women’s squash, finally went to see an eye doctor...
...something is done to a patient that seriously risks his health, then the patient has a right to take legal action against the doctor,” he said. “It’s a malpractice on part of the doctor...
...among them nausea, fatigue and hair loss) can be brutal, the treatment does work: patients who go through it will, on average, live longer. So I was surprised to read in the current issue of Annals of Internal Medicine that only 29% of breast-cancer patients actually take their doctor's advice and get chemotherapy after surgery. Even more striking was the breakdown by age. While 66% of women 45 and younger go in for chemo, the numbers drop to 12% for women...
...patients and doctors alike, it's this balance of risk and benefit that ultimately decides. Dr. Alfred Chang, chief of surgical oncology at the University of Michigan Medical School, believes most women will do what their doctor recommends if the choice is properly presented. He suggests that oncologists need to be more aggressive in explaining chemotherapy's benefits. Having never had to go through it myself, I have difficulty imagining all the factors a woman--young or old--weighs when considering chemo. It's her life, and she has to make the call. All I would ask is that...
...Though its pace drags and its tone is too unvarying, the movie shares the sweet melancholy of the novel. Both versions evoke a wistful longing for the irretrievable drama of youth. Teenage pals Ma (Liu Ye) and Luo (Chen Kun), inheritors of the bourgeois crimes of their doctor parents, are sent for re-education to the primitive if not remarkably picturesque mountain village of Phoenix on the Sky. The work is tough and the conditions harsh. Even worse, all books are banned?except little red ones. Western music is equally verboten as Ma, the film's violin-playing narrator, discovers...