Word: journalism
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FINAL CARE Doctors and health experts have long known that much of the help for patients with terminal and chronic illnesses comes from family members. A new study in the New England Journal of Medicine reports that the burden is heaviest when the relative is suffering from a chronic illness like heart disease, which doesn't garner as much public attention or medical support as cancer. Such care, they note, disproportionately falls to women, who handle it in 72% of cases...
...Nieman Foundation brings 24 professional journalists from around the nation and the world to Cambridge each year. Kovach came to Harvard as a Nieman Fellow in 1988-89 from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and stayed on as the foundation's curator...
Kovach also has a contract to write a memoir about his experience at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, where he was an editor for two years before resigning due to a dispute with the newspaper's owners...
...Kovach left The Times for Atlanta, where the Journal-Constitution won two Pulitzer Prizes under his leadership. But he left Atlanta in favor of Cambridge in 1988 after being denied what he felt to be sufficient editorial independence...
...parallel to the national debate on health care: Next week, when the House of Representatives opens what promises to be a heated debate on managed care and the scope of patients? rights, watch for newly disenfranchised physicians to join forces with powerful ?- and unlikely ?- political allies. The Wall Street Journal reports that many physicians, fed up with their corroding autonomy, are turning away from their Republican roots and appealing to a new group of allies: liberal Democrats. While politics and medicine have coexisted since the dawn of modern insurance policies, the stranglehold of each on the other has never been...