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...better or for worse, the idea of traditional one-on-one counseling or therapy is not welcomed by many Harvard students, and seeking counseling unfortunately holds a stigma among many undergraduates. Students should be helped to understand that self-reflection is not limited to the stereotypical vision of a patient lying on a couch while a doctor looms in the corner taking notes. Encouraging engagement with profound questions in a group setting will lend legitimacy to students’ moral queries and create an intellectually-charged forum for introspection. The benefit that these groups could have on students will...
...author-activist Barbara Seaman began to research the high-estrogen birth-control pill after readers of her magazine column complained of painful symptoms. Seaman's book, which exposed side effects, including stroke, heart attack and depression, led to highly publicized Senate hearings and ultimately to mandated warning labels and patient-information inserts. She was 72 and had lung cancer...
This is embarrassing for the Bush Administration, which launched a splashy effort to mediate the Israeli-Palestinian conflict last November. But blaming the Administration alone for this sad state of affairs is off the mark; it's hard to cure a patient who just doesn't want to be treated...
...head.“When they have it in the corner [by the Cornell student section], the crowd can be loud, and they can have control of it,” Taylor said of countering the Big Red charge. “We just like to stay patient, stay on our guys.”The Crimson would add its insurance goal in the same fashion, weathering a threat from the Cornell offense (reinforced when goaltender Ben Scrivens was pulled) before senior Tyler Magura was able to find an open lane to send the puck into the empty...
...According to a recent column by Judith Warner in the New York Times, while psychiatrists are hard pressed to think of a patient who has asked without reason for an antidepressant, they can think of many patients who exhibit depressive symptoms who aren’t aware that there are treatments for depression—or even that it is an illness. As much as drug companies have been criticized for advertising their medications to the general public, we must acknowledge that the increased awareness of mental illness these ads have generated have had the positive effect of getting information...