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...attentive and compassionate listener, Pepper has constructed his book around interviews with former cancer patients at Memorial. These survivors offer considerable testimony of bad or even potentially fatal medical advice proffered by the physicians they saw first. Estelle Marsicano was scoffed at by her family doctor. "My liver is large too-want to feel it?" he asked. When John Alexion consulted a prominent urologist about his prostate cancer, the patient recalled, "the elderly doctor proceeded to lay a bomb on me. The only procedure he would consider was surgical castration and radical removal of the prostate. I thought, 'Jesus...
...ritual seems strange. Things just aren't done that way any more. Not even in Chad, where ten years ago President Ngarta Tombalbaye ordered all high government officials to undergo Yondo, a sometimes fatal initiation ritual combining physical abuse (e.g., flogging, mock burial) with ingeniously gruesome tests of stamina (e.g., crawling naked through a nest of termites). For his pains, Tombalbaye was assassinated within a year, and his people danced in the streets. Americans bear their burdens with better humor. They show no inclination to deal nearly so decisively with, say, the Hubert Humphrey test of presidential toughness. Humphrey...
Asbestos--a common insulating material that has been linked to cancer and other fatal diseases--has recently sparked concern among students and employees at the Biological Laboratories and in the College Kitchens and tunnels...
...safe to make such a promise without fear of the impending ethical questions raised by devices such as respirators or organ transplants. But many aspects of this oath are simply outdated; in fact, it includes a promise never to remove kidney stones, a standard procedure today which was fatal at the time the oath was written...
Harvard, again capitalizing on a Jumbo mishap which this time proved to be fatal, got the run it needed to pull out the squeaker in the top of the ninth...