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...Recently, America's premier orthopedic publication, The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, published a scholarly research paper that compared patients who have had their fresh clavicle fractures repaired surgically with patients who were treated the old way. The researchers (who seem to do a lot of operating on clavicles) found that people who had the surgery actually had less pain and less bump than those treated only with the support. So surgery as the best initial treatment is the researchers' suggestion. That's a conclusion which every orthopedist who has treated these fractures - as well as every patient, understandably...
...find out what happened in the firings, four of the dismissed U.S. attorneys will appear before the Senate, and six before the House, along with a senior DOJ official who will most likely defend his department's actions. Carol Lam, a prosecutor from California, will read a joint statement on behalf of her fellow witnesses, thanking President Bush and defending the integrity and competence of the dismissed officials. Then the witnesses will answer questions...
...need for—the kind of work we do is almost infinite.” He pointed to a $20 million disparity between the organization’s requested and actual budget. PIH was founded 20 years ago based off work that Farmer, then a joint medicine and anthropology student, had done providing free medical treatment to the poverty-stricken residents of rural Haiti. “The patients are the heart and soul of the operation. Often, once they’ve gotten better, we train and employ them,” Marx said, adding that the Farmer...
...Harvard, but to me that contrast is one of Oxford’s key selling points. I loved my time at Harvard, and I also had a wonderful time at Oxford, but the two experiences could not have been more different. At Harvard, I was an over-scheduled joint concentrator, varsity athlete and extracurricular participant. My days would start with a 9 a.m. class and end with an 11 p.m. club meeting, with classes, sports practice, and a lunch meeting in between. At Oxford, I played a few intramural sports, and I didn’t join any clubs. Instead...
...site includes praise for Feith from Marine General Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, who calls him a "patriot" who "cares only about what is best for the United States." The site includes news articles and documents pertaining to Feith's Pentagon tenure. And there's a tempting link entitled "Media Myths vs. Facts." Unfortunately, clicking that link brings you to a bare page with a forlorn message: "More information coming soon...