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...Place's doctor didn't think much of the lump either, but recommended a mammogram nonetheless. After that came an ultrasound of the breast and a biopsy, and then, finally, a diagnosis: breast cancer. "I was completely numb," says Place, 41 at the time. "I let my colleagues know," he says - mostly men, as he's a communications technician for the Royal Air Force in Britain. "They were as dumbfounded as I was." Even at his local breast clinic, when Place would arrive, he says, some staff assumed he was accompanying a female patient...
...managed to find a hole in the Manhattan skyline. But he really should be off his feet. A few days earlier, in the rush to catch a plane to New York City, Stoppard stubbed his toe hard in his London apartment. He has just come back from the doctor, who told him the toe is broken and ordered him to stay off it as much as possible--after which, Stoppard walked 13 blocks to the theater...
...scant attention civilian med schools give the question of torture is troubling, since about 70% of military doctors are recruited from those institutions in exchange for scholarships. There could be even more civilian docs in the military, thanks to the "doctor draft," a 1987 congressional authorization that lets the military call up civilian doctors in case of a wartime shortage. Preparing doctors for the possibility of service would not have to demand much of a med school's curriculum. "It doesn't have to be a full class," says Boyd. "Even five lunchtime talks would make the difference...
...Steve Miles, a medical ethicist and the author of Oath Betrayed: Torture, Medical Complicity and the War on Terror, says it may not be necessary to teach every medical student the specifics of torture. Rather, there's a more general skill all doctors need: push back--the ability to say no, whether it's to a commander who wants a prisoner tortured or an HMO that wants the potential benefits of an expensive treatment concealed. "Every doctor is going to wind up in a dual-loyalty situation," Miles says. The answer is to remember that a doctor's first objective...
...genocide in Darfur is half the situation in northern Uganda and one wonders why the world does not know about it,” said a doctor who has worked in Uganda during the first of a new series of human rights events. Julian J. Atim, a native of northern Uganda who is a student at the School of Public Health, spoke last night at a screening of “Uganda Rising,” a documentary about the humanitarian crisis in northern Uganda. The screening kicked off the first “Human Rights 101” class...