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...modern-day black bag still contains a stethoscope but also a cell phone and a personal digital assistant like a Palm or laptop with detailed patient histories. Moreover, "most point-of-service diagnostic equipment has become so portable that house-call physicians have the capability of providing care comparable to an urgent-care center in the home," says Dr. George Taler, co-director of the Washington Hospital Center Medical House Call Program in Washington. "Even intravenous therapies, medications and oxygen are readily available at the time of the visit if the physician wishes to offer advanced care for those patients...
Lyons, Irene Kurzweil's physician, started doing house calls six years ago. "This is the only thing that I found really satisfies my desire to be a doctor," he says. "I am involved in my patients' lives and get to know them as people." His black bag includes a Palm computer that has wi-fi for e-mail, a special database for patient histories and lab results, and a customized word-processing program. He also carries a battery-powered electrocardiogram (ECG) machine and portable lab kits to do finger sticks that test blood-glucose levels. The doctors often work with...
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...year. He was never active in Harvard’s gay community, but the Boston title fell into his hands after a friend of Smith’s tipped off Don Spradlin, Executive Director of Mr. Gay, a gay male beauty contest. On October 26 Smith will be in Palm Springs competing against 24 Americans and 25 internationals for the title of Mr. Gay. It’s a prestigious (and succinct) distinction, but Smith insists he’s not feeling the heat. “I’m not nervous...
...Harvard’s Program for Evolutionary Dynamics. Epstein agreed to consider raising his total contribution to $30 million after a review of the program’s progress. That review has not yet taken place, according to the University. After Epstein was charged with soliciting prostitution at his Palm Beach, Fla., mansion, several politicians who had accepted campaign money from the billionaire returned the donations. They include Eliot L. Spitzer, the New York attorney general who is running for governor; Mark A. Green, a Democratic candidate for attorney general of New York; and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, according...