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...feverish Proustian narrative to twenty-first century Manhattan. This novel, which blurs the boundaries between supermarket romance and literary fiction, mainly relies on Aciman’s ease at spinning together long, hypnotic sentences to fuel the heavily psychological and minimally plot-driven narrative. However, the same characteristics that give Aciman his writerly credentials—his finely tuned cultural references and the delicate register of his artistic understanding—are trivial ornaments that cannot disguise the stagnant quality of the central love story. Though the characters are undoubtedly clever and sardonic, their emotional interplay fails to conjure...
...will the seriousness of the homicide charge facing Murray do anything to discourage a practice seemingly as old as Hollywood itself - celebrity clients with substance-abuse problems, or with other real or imagined illnesses, finding doctors to give them the medicines and care they crave, even if it goes against proper medical practice? Or are the temptations - whether the generous pay or the ego gratification of being patronized by a famous person - simply too great to resist? (See Michael Jackson's death: How culpable are the doctors...
...general, and needy, and as a result, if you want to be part of their care, often you can find yourself going beyond normal boundaries and going above and beyond what you would do for other patients." She adds, "It's very easy to slip over the line of giving good, objective care and maybe overtreating at times. You may feel pressure, like this physician apparently felt pressure by Michael Jackson to give him propofol and all these other things. It's very hard to say no to these people unless you keep a very strict sense of boundaries...
Sack says the charge against Murray should give physicians pause before overtreating patients or administering to problems outside their areas of expertise. "It's going to make it much more likely that if I'm a cardiologist or general practitioner and I have an affluent or celebrity client who has a problem with drugs or alcohol, or it has turned into a drug or alcohol problem, then I'd be much more likely to refer them than to manage them in my office. It's going to make people much more cautious about the potential risks, and that...
This strikes some people in France and Germany as being agonizingly ironic following last year's bank bailouts. "First we're forced to watch our taxes save irresponsible bankers and immoral financial markets from collapsing under their own greed, and now we'll watch as the same politicians give the Greek government money to pay debts it piled up and lied about," complains Jean-Charles Robert, an information-technology employee from suburban Paris. "It never ends - in fact, it just gets worse...