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...stinks. We know how vulnerable patients are - that they literally lie open to us - and that our oath is to do for them what is best. And the best is often not that which "satisfies." To stop giving a narcotic, to do the bigger operation, to deliver devastating news - none of that is satisfying. It is not exactly a good business, selling painful best choices to customers. But it can be the best medicine. The great physician will often prescribe what's unsatisfying, looking farther down the road past "customer satisfaction" to patient well-being...
...morale-wrecking 15 months to an even more painful 18 months. But Marine General Peter Pace, outgoing chairman of the Joint Chiefs, reassured GIs in Afghanistan this week that 18-month combat tours are not, as has been rumored, in their future. "An 18-month tour has zero, zero, none, nada, squat, nothing, no validity, OK?" he said. "I want to make sure you got that...
Those “drinking rules” I had to explain at that first meeting? None to speak of, considering everyone’s of age. Add to the fact that they’re mostly from abroad—England, the Netherlands, Japan, Australia and Greece, just to name a few in my entryway—and it’s clear that their alcohol consumption is much more akin to “civilized social norm” than the “get-trashed-and-throw-up” mentality that seems to rule in American...
McLoughlin added that, the advantages of feedback notwithstanding, the old system of a simple opt-out link would be reinstated if the opt-out numbers do not decline this year. Any feedback circulated to the UC would be on aggregate basis, he said, revealing none of the names of those who decided...
...None of the musicians have had any formal music training, and most had no education at all. But what has raised eyebrows about the group, locally, is that its members include both Somalis and Ethiopians, nations traditionally considered enemies. And the band has distinguished itself by its willingness to tackle subjects considered off-limits in Somali communities, from the negative impact of clan rivalries to the specter of AIDS...