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...Which is why there are few office visits that cause a pediatrician more headaches than a child whose chief complaint is, in fact, headaches. Most childhood headaches can be attributed to the same things that cause adults' headaches, such as sinus infections, stress, allergies, migraines and eye strain. But as common as these etiologies are, the causes of headaches are myriad, and a careful practitioner must be able to diagnose the serious, albeit rare, causes as well as the common ones. So it is always with some reluctance that I approach headache patients, not because they are demanding but because...
...what way was Katrina life changing for you? There's always this expectation that it wouldn't really happen here and that, if it did, there would be a safety net. To see it actually happen here was an eye-opening experience...
Nowhere in your story does it mention the real reason Americans cannot afford surgery in our hospitals. Health-care costs are rising despite the ever championed cause of tort reform, because of failed risky investments made by the insurance industry. Our well-lobbied legislators turn a blind eye as campaign fund raisers pass the buck to the health-care system and blame malpractice damages for skyrocketing costs...
...team considered other models--a dartboard with a perfect outcome as the bull's-eye, or a minefield, in which a mine represents death and a rock might be, say, nausea. That analogy failed. ("People thought they could step over the side effects," he says.) The roulette wheel best illustrated the range of outcomes. With medical care, as with that little white ball, says Hoffman, "you know that it could land anywhere...
Murtha's candidacy puts House minority leader Nancy Pelosi in a particularly delicate position. Pelosi, a bulwark of her party's left wing who has her eye on becoming the first woman Speaker of the House, won the bitter 2001 race for Democratic whip by 23 votes over Hoyer--with Murtha as her campaign manager. They have stayed tight. But sources close to Pelosi say she had nothing to do with Murtha's surprising announcement; sources close to Hoyer suggest they don't believe that...