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...ability to concentrate on the task in front of him, and a lot of experience at removing tumors. But plenty of surgeons can claim these. It is something else entirely that distinguishes Black from most of his colleagues: an absolutely unshakable devotion to a single task. Says Dr. Edward Oldfield, chief of surgical neurology at the National Institutes of Health: "This is the unique feature of his career--the way he is using rather striking advances in basic science in the application of new treatments." Keith Black is fighting an all-fronts war against brain cancer...
...Coventry Edward's-Pitt...
...Edward Conlon, writing in the September 29 issue of The New Yorker, grants the Louima affair a proper inspection. Conlon compares the experience of the police officer to that of the soldier. He contends that just as the extraordinary demands of warfare can erode the character of good men, resulting in phenomenon like military atrocities, cops who work in increasingly war-like urban environments can find themselves similarly destroyed by their difficult task. Conlon writes, "Whether engaged in combat on the Trojan plain or in the jungles of Vietnam or on the streets of Brooklyn, those who traffic in violence...
...first-year residents of Weld Room 11 felt they could work well together from their first day at Harvard. Edward S.Baker, Scott G.Farber, Jacob E. Fleming, Arthur E.Koski-Karell, Matthew S. O'Hare and Joshua J. Wilske even converted one room of their suite into a casino in lieu of living in singles...
...ethical debate here is obviously a complex one, without a clear distinction between right and wrong. Comparisons to Tuskegee don't help; neither does the imposition of Western views, or what Dr. Edward Mbidde of Uganda calls "ethical imperialism." Calm and careful deliberations are in order. Insisting on the infeasible in the name of ethical purity is counterproductive in the struggle to stop this deadly virus...