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...pieces of legislation of one kind or other. People just listen to one piece of law being a stumbling block, without realizing that a lot of things are going through every day." He admits that "some things I tried to do did not come through," but adds, "I am patient...
...patient was an 8-year-old California girl with severe headaches. Her parents, who were both struggling to adjust to new high-pressure jobs, took her to top neurologists and pediatricians. The child's symptoms, the doctors concluded, were a response to stress at home, along with perhaps a sinus condition. But four or five months later, it became clear that she had a brain tumor and needed surgery. When her doctors looked back at early scans of her brain, they were aghast to see the shadow of a tumor they had previously overlooked...
...result of Groopman's journey is How Doctors Think (Houghton Mifflin; 307 pages), an engagingly written book that is must reading for every physician who cares for patients and every patient who wishes to get the best care. Groopman says patients can prompt broader, sharper and less prejudiced thinking by asking doctors open-ended questions and learning to identify some of their common thinking mistakes...
...that Mr. Obama’s college nickname was “Gassy.” A special report about the watering-down of recess activities to avoid damage to self-esteem devolves into a rant by the fake “doctor,” complaining that his patient is now impotent because he struck out in Little League. An interview with a fake terrorism expert leaves the anchors and the expert stumped about the link between different terrorist cells in London. Everyone spouts out a long list of the Islamic names that were present in each cell...
Then one inaccurate patient's bill was reported to an inside billing agency, causing a ruckus in the school's official accounting system. The dean of the medical school, James Corrigan, eventually insisted he had given Gerber permission all along to do his own billing. But the alarms had alerted the IRS, and it soon swooped...