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...impact, which will involve hooking up with big name outlets. The group's purpose - as corny as it sounds - is to produce those increasingly rare stories that possess "moral force," according to editor-in-chief Paul Steiger, who spent 16 years as managing editor of the Wall Street Journal. "We're going to try to do stories such that, by shining a light on an abuse of power, we'll give the public the information it needs to effect change," he says. Such statements make Steiger sound like the most idealistic 66-year old around, a fact he acknowledges. "This...
...findings, to be published in this week's Journal of Clinical Oncology, suggest doctors need to do a better job at communicating the exact nature of an illness. Physicians are, after all, largely responsible for informing families when their loved one is facing a fatal disease - of those widowers who were told that their wife's cancer was incurable, 79% received the news from the doctor. Still, patients and families do control at least some of the information flow, Dahlstrand says. "Sometimes a spouse can block out what the doctor is trying to tell them," she says. "So, the doctor...
...larger inquiry into how people prepare for the nearing death of a spouse. Very little research has been done on how communication before death affects a widow or widower's physical and mental well-being after their spouse is gone. One study, published last spring in the journal Death Studies, found that knowing ahead of time that a spouse is fatally ill may give the surviving partner an opportunity for closure and may prevent extreme depression later on. The paper warns that while most mourners eventually recover from the loss of a loved one, about 20% will face chronic emotional...
...said retired general B.B. Bell, who initiated mandatory counseling when he commanded the U.S. Army in Europe. (Bell was referring to the three returning soldiers who murdered their wives in 2002.) There is a similar program at Fort Lewis, Wash. According to Dr. Charles Hoge in the New England Journal of Medicine, such programs can significantly reduce the number of soldiers reluctant to go for counseling...
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