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Patricia Bloom, an internist at New York City's Montefiore Hospital, thinks Ford's position on the similarities between somatizers and doctors may have some validity but is "skeptical that the doctor is fearful for the same reason that the patient is." Arthur Barsky, a psychiatrist at Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital, believes Ford's views are difficult to substantiate. Says he: "The way you treat somebody has a lot to do with the way you think about yourself. That phenomenon is there. Beyond that, it's inference...
Even so, sex is not what they really care about. The main preoccupation is with death, from the most traditional internist to a Montana-raised ex-Marine who has become an Orthodox Jewish male nurse. To Jack Buckman, director of emergency medicine, death is an opponent that must be beaten every time: "If it ever happens that somebody comes into the emergency department alive and awake and 15 minutes later he's dead, the physician taking care of him better have a goddam good reason why it happened...
...routine call. Police in Columbus received a tip that a man was loitering outside a north-side town house. When the officers arrived, the intruder was inside with a ski mask and an array of burglary tools. Arrested was an improbable suspect: Dr. Edward Jackson, 38, a prominent local internist. The case be came even more improbable after the police searched Jackson's car. There they found a long list of rape victims, leading them to believe that Jackson was the "Grandville rapist," suspected of nearly 100 assaults in that affluent neighbor hood. Last week a Franklin County grand...
...have superior language skills, or so the popular wisdom has it. For years, scientists and educators have been seeking a biological basis for these perceived differences between the sexes. The latest finding is reported in last week's New England Journal of Medicine. Neurologist Daniel B. Hier and Internist William F. Crowley gave intelligence tests to 19 men with a rare disorder that inhibits the pubertal surge of male hormones, androgens. The subjects scored lower than normal males on tests of spatial ability, the capacity to visualize and mentally manipulate objects in space. Girls usually score lower than boys...
...Association states that one SUMEX program performed at a level comparable to that of five medical experts at Stanford. William Baker, NIH administrator for the SUMEX project, says that a computer system at the University of Pittsburgh called CADUCEUS is so sophisticated that it "would be a board-certified internist if it were human." Pittsburgh researchers administered one part of an internal-medicine board exam to "Dr. CADUCEUS." It passed...