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...family physician who often knew as much about his patient as he did about an illness. Today, Americans get far better medical care than ever before; as for the rest, they are often lucky to get as much as a hurried smile. The result is a troubling paradox: at a time when medical skill has reached new pinnacles, the doctor-patient relationship has badly deteriorated. It is a situation that both irritates the patient and worries the medical profession...
...root of this paradox of special excellence and overall shortfall is the very fact that is responsible for so much of the grumbling among today's patients: the decline of the general practitioner, both in status and number. Twenty years ago, there were 110,000 family doctors in the U.S.; today there are only 72,000. There were four general practitioners for every specialist in 1945, but today only one doctor in three is a G.P. According to the most recent figures, only 18% of the U.S.'s 8,000 fourth-year medical students professed an intention...
...enduring paradox of the Boston Marathon is that the doctors who give each entrant a physical exam before the race never bother to check his head. Ask a competitor what makes him run and he will tell you: "It feels so good when I stop." It must-after 26 mi. 385 yds. of loping up and down hills, fighting leg cramps and nausea, cultivating blisters, dodging angry dogs and straining to hold out till the next comfort station. Such stoicism is plainly un-American-which explains why a foreigner has won every Patriot's Day marathon in almost...
Layzer's theory also helps resolve what is known as Olber's Paradox on the night- time...
Previous attempts to resolve the paradox, Layzer said, focused on present conditions in the universe. Some concluded that stars were rapidly receding from the earth and that light was shifted into an invisible part of the spectrum. Others argued that stars have only a limited life-time and that, at a given moment, only a small number will emit visible light...