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...with skates and tampons to recognize the skating rink she arranged for and the sanitary products she put in bathrooms. Kagan is also praised for the comfortable chairs she put in the library and the coffee she brought to students with early classes. To first- year law school student Jacob K. Jou, it is these “little things” that set her apart as an administrator...
...like Jacob. I remember him best because of the patient in the next room that night. My very next patient, right next door...
...chart, gave me time to write and volunteered many more symptoms and disabilities, adding frequently that she had never had these problems until the accident (although she had taken plenty of narcotics "for other things"). As I dutifully recorded, in walked Vicki, the nurse who had just helped with Jacob. She had her clipboard, to administer...
...There are, unfortunately, a lot more Charlenes than Jacobs in our area. People like them teach something important: pain is a special case of the mind/body problem. Ask many "experts" in pain management. Was Charlene in pain? Yes. Was Jacob? No. Why? Because these practitioners hold that pain is only what the patient reports. In a simple way it's impossible to disagree with them...
...There is, however, a mind-reading machine that certain doctors and nurses can use in cases like Charlene's and Jacob's. Its use is frowned upon by many in administrative positions and specific measures to render these machines useless, most notably long forms, committee meetings and menu-driven care algorithms, are being implemented with increasing ferocity. It is only this machine that can make rational and humane treatment decisions for the suffering though. It is, in fact, only this machine which suffers. See past the ones that beep and blink; the mind remains our most important machine in medicine...