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...usually work that way. While doctors are often in a better position than most of us to spot the hazards in the hospital and the holes in their care, they can't necessarily fix them. They can't even avoid them when they become patients themselves. When Dr. Lisa Friedman felt the lump in her breast in the summer of 2001, she did--nothing. "I just sat on it," she says, "because I clicked into the mode of being physician, not patient, and I thought, 'Most lumps are not cancer, I'll just watch this.'" That was her first mistake...
...education of Lisa Friedman, patient, had begun. Like any other patient--and perhaps even more so--she had to drag information out of her physicians. "They were treating me like I was knowledgeable, but they weren't listening to me." When she found out that the cancer had spread to several places in one breast, Friedman told her surgeon there was no need to preserve her breast for cosmetic reasons; she was more concerned that the cancer be entirely removed. She asked for a mastectomy--but she was told that a lumpectomy would do the job fine. "I went along...
...more consistent surface,” Berg says. “With natural grass you never know what you’re going to get.”—Staff writer Alex McPhillips contributed reporting to this story. —Staff writer Lisa J. Kennelly can be reached at kennell@fas.harvard.edu...
...restricted to the featured artists. Nearly 2000 people attended the festival’s events, which included several screenings of student films, as well as discussions with professional filmmakers such as Michael Showalter, who co-wrote and acted in “Wet Hot American Summer” and Lisa Gossels, director of “The Children of Chabannes,” one of the features screened...
...students’ presence “gave everybody hope,” said Lisa K. Dozier, 56, sitting in the trailer where the students were tracing maps and typing on laptops...