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Everyone can use an aphorism. I wish I could remember one, something especially Delphic or brilliant from The Consolation of Philosophy, the Bhagavad Gita, the Koran. Charlie Chan said: "Evidence like nose on anteater." Does that count? Russians are better at such things. Once in my earshot Lillian Hellman observed: "A crazy person is crazy all the time." I have frequently found that valuable, particularly when in the company of a crazy person who is, for the moment, lucid. Confucius said: "Filial piety is the constant requirement of Heaven." That seems to me an excellent aphorism...
...number of American medical dissidents who have long opposed the indiscriminate use of mastectomies for breast-cancer patients. At a recent conference in Venice, Italy, sponsored by Bristol-Myers, he and a number of other U.S. doctors reported on their successes with more limited treatment. According to Dr. Samuel Hellman, physician in chief of New York's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, even patients with tumors as large as two inches in diameter may require nothing more than a lumpectomy followed by radiation. Though this approach involves removing even less tissue than Veronesi's method does, the results...
Despite the persuasive force of these studies, Hellman admits, "the consensus among U.S. physicians is still in favor of mastectomy." Indeed, his own institution, Sloan-Kettering, has long been a bastion of radical surgery. A survey conducted in 1980-81 by the National Cancer Institute found that 80% of breast cancer patients in Atlanta and Detroit were being treated with a modified radical mastectomy, an operation in which the breast and some chest muscle are removed. Up to 5% were still being treated with the old-style radical mastectomy, in which so much pectoral muscle is removed that arm motion...
...firmly entrenched in American medicine, many breast-cancer patients are never told about the alternatives. To remedy this, California, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Hawaii and Wisconsin have passed laws that specifically require doctors to inform patients of options in treatment before a final decision is made. Even so, reports Hellman, the various approaches are generally offered with "varying degrees of enthusiasm, depending on the physician...
There he discovered familiar diversions, among them prostitutes and Scotch. His great affair with Lillian Hellman did not spur him to write nor, according to this intriguing and detailed account by Novelist Diane Johnson (Lying Low), did it change his habits. Despite his proclaimed affection for Hellman, he continued to patronize ladies of the evening and once asked her to join in a threesome (she declined). Hammett admired Marxism more than the U.S. Communist Party but joined a celebrity cell where he indulged in what Budd Schulberg called "dialectical materialism by the pool." In 1951, long after most film radicals...