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...upheld a Reagan Administration ban on abortion counseling at federally funded clinics and thus permitted the type of government meddling that makes doctors most uncomfortable: restricting, based on political rather than professional considerations, what they can say to patients. Ever since, the medical establishment has been running a high fever, dashing off angry letters, signing petitions and marching in street demonstrations like any other disaffected interest group. "This is a bald-faced issue for doctors," says Dr. Marjorie Braude of the American Medical Women's Association. "It's asking us to commit malpractice...
...intricacies of human disease. Dr. Daniel Isaacman, a pediatrician at Pittsburgh's Childrens Hospital who has examined the question of remote diagnosis, cites a study in which 61 emergency-room doctors were contacted by phone and presented with the same hypothetical patient, a baby boy with a 102 degrees fever. For a child under two months, such a fever can signal a life- threatening infection. Nearly 30% of doctors responding did not ask the child's age and so failed to recommend that the youngster even come in for an exam. Richard Kessel, executive director of New York State...
...people so certain of their birthright be disoriented? More to the point, how can the French feel lost when France has emerged as the master builder of modern Europe? Not since the mid-19th century, when Baron Haussmann thrust his boulevards through rancid slums, has Paris experienced such a fever of construction and renewal. With a Metro that works, streets kept remarkably clean by 5,000 green-uniformed sweepers, parks planted like Impressionist paintings and bakeries galore, Paris may well represent the apogee of civilized city living -- for those who can afford the rent. Yet not since Parisians finally ousted...
...with Heimlich. She thinks she contracted Lyme disease as a teenager. By last year she was helpless, subject to vomiting and seizures, her joints so swollen that she couldn't operate her wheelchair. She flew to Mexico City last November and was injected with malaria. For 35 days her fever would spike to 108 degrees, then drop to 95 degrees. Yet two weeks after the induced malaria was cured, she was learning to walk again. Though she still has some Lyme symptoms, her recovery continues. She sums up the experience: "I knew I was dying. I had no other choice...
What's the message in Jungle Fever, director Spike Lee's new film about an interracial love affair? Not even the film's main players can agree...