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Like most of the middle-aged men and women being examined today, I appear entirely healthy on the outside. Yet, warns internist Dr. John Campbell, a staff member of the clinic's personal-health-management program, which administers the physical, "no one who comes through here is really healthy." That vague feeling of foreboding, that they will discover something seriously wrong with me, returns...
...many vials of blood have been taken from my arm, I am dressed in my patient's uniform--white polo shirt sporting the Cleveland Clinic logo and loose blue trousers--and seated across a desk from Dr. Richard Lang, section head of preventive medicine at Cleveland Clinic and my internist for the day. With unexpected deliberation, given the harried pace of American medicine, he spends the next hour questioning me--work, family, stresses, satisfactions, diet, diseases, sex life--progressing from the general to the specific. The goal of his detective work is to elicit hints of any underlying conditions. "Most...
Also in his figurative corner was his new wife, Dr. Janice Itson, an internist from Chicago whom he met several years ago at a revival meeting. Midway between the Olympics and the fight, Holyfield asked her to marry him--and to help take care of his finances as well as his six children by four different women. Not only did she restore order to his Atlanta household, but she also gave her husband a new sense of well-being. "I never could've beaten Tyson without Janice," he says...
Besides the several thousand doctors who include elements of various "unconventionals" in their practice, many others refer patients to non-M.D. practitioners on a case-by-case basis. Dr. Mark Anderson, an internist in Greenwich, Connecticut, directs some patients to homeopaths or acupuncturists for pain that has not responded to conventional treatment. "Patients ask about these things, and so long as they really want to try them and keep in touch with me afterward," he says, "I go along...
...Howard Fuerst was perplexed by his stepdaughter the book publicist. The year was 1991, and she had sent him a volume called Quantum Healing by some sort of Indian spiritual healer named Deepak Chopra. Fuerst, a practicing internist in Hollywood, Florida, from 1955 to 1986, did his med school at the University of Pennsylvania, and Chopra's thesis--that the human spirit and the human body are intimately connected--had not been on the curriculum. He skimmed the book and put it aside...