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...Walter Karney, a Navy captain and the internist who coordinated the President's annual physical examination in 1985, said last week that Dr. Edward Cattau, a member of the examining team, had in an April letter "strongly urged" a colonoscopy after the second intestinal growth was discovered. But White House sources deny that the letter, written a month after the examination, conveyed any sense of urgency...
Patients such as Steve Mason don't view it that way. A retired Army captain who served in Vietnam and has published three books of poetry, he was diagnosed with terminal cancer last April. Eventually, his longtime internist agreed to write his Nembutal prescription, but only after Mason cleared all the law's hurdles: submitting oral and written requests in the presence of two witnesses, waiting a mandatory 15 days and getting the concurrence of a second doctor that he had less than six months to live. "This isn't suicide," Mason insists. "Suicide means a needless taking of life...
...though patients are often reluctant to consult them. "Patients hate to hear you offer them mind therapy, because they feel what you're doing is telling them they have a mental illness and you don't really believe they have a physical problem," says Dr. Scott Fishman, an anesthesiologist, internist and psychiatrist who is chief of pain medicine at U.C. Davis. But the mind is always actively involved in pain, especially in chronic cases. "We know that when you image the brain, the areas that light up when you experience pain include parts of the brain involved in emotions," says...
Still, who among us wouldn't feel shortchanged if we arrived for a checkup and were never even asked to unbutton our shirts? Dr. Christine Laine, a Philadelphia internist and senior deputy editor of the Annals of Internal Medicine, understands that the odds of discovering a serious problem by listening to a healthy patient's heart and lungs during a checkup are slim, but she listens anyway. Laine says the ritualistic wielding of the stethoscope on bare skin fosters an emotional bond between patients and the person they're relying on for their medical well-being. "And anyway," she says...
...modern era of presidential campaigning, no candidate's spouse has been so purposefully absent from the scene as Howard Dean's wife, an internist and mother of two in Vermont. Some laud her independence and nonpolitical bent, while others see these as a liability. The other candidates' wives have played more traditional roles in the campaigns. A look at how involved they have been. --By Nadia Mustafa...