Word: internist
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Turkey is knocking on the European Union's door. Whether it gets in or not depends on the commitment of the Turkish parliament to political and economic reform. But it may also depend on one M.P. who has transformed herself from an internist at a provincial hospital into a human rights warrior...
...their first sessions, yoga students may have trouble suppressing those competitive beta waves. We want to better ourselves, but also to do better than others; we force ourselves into the gym-rat race. "Genuine Hatha yoga is a balance of trying and relaxing," says Dr. Timothy McCall, an internist and the author of Examining Your Doctor: A Patient's Guide to Avoiding Harmful Medical Care. "But a lot of gym yoga is about who can do this really difficult contortion to display to everyone else in the class." The workout warriors have to realize that yoga is more an Athenian...
...their first sessions, yoga students may have trouble suppressing those competitive beta waves. We want to better ourselves, but also to do better than others; we force ourselves into the gym-rat race. "Genuine Hatha yoga is a balance of trying and relaxing," says Dr. Timothy McCall, an internist and the author of Examining Your Doctor: A Patient's Guide to Avoiding Harmful Medical Care. "But a lot of gym yoga is about who can do this really difficult contortion to display to everyone else in the class." The workout warriors have to realize that yoga is more an Athenian...
...next to minor Pooh-bahs and nabobs yakking on cell phones. Snatches of French and German drifted by, and Japanese, and Minnesotan ("So you think it's going to be a long time then? Or no?"). And all of us praying the same continuous silent prayer to the Great Internist to let the tests come out clean and please no colonoscopy today...
...care-giving responsibilities extend beyond her infant and her mother. Matt, the baby's father and an internist at a Boston HMO, has two young sons from his first marriage, which has recently ended in divorce. Kate was not the cause of their parents' breakup, but the boys treat her with suspicion and sometimes open hostility. And then there is Matt himself, who had been her lover for only eight months when Kate became pregnant and saddled with responsibilities. They plan to marry in the June following their son's birth, but Kate occasionally wonders whether he will still want...