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...achieves a delicate and totally unsentimental irony in this small, glowing gem of a movie. Persona 1966; Ingmar Bergman A famous actress falls silent, unable to speak of and to the world's brutalities and banalities. Her nurse fills the emptiness with chipper chatter, eventually talking herself into her patient's tragic view. Bergman has never been more bleak, austere, enigmatic or hypnotic. Chinatown 1974; Roman Polanski Dewy-fresh 1930s Los Angeles becomes the ironic avatar of this darkly shadowed tale of multiple rapes - of the land, of a tragically misused woman. Film noir was a tired genre before writer...
...even better: as luck would have it, the Harmony did know about the A, B and C buttons my cable box demands. A richer alternative is the Nevo SL from Universal Electronics Inc. It lists for $800. Though it's sold through custom installers, its programmability is not beyond patient, slightly geeky do-it-yourselfers. And the payoff is great: since it's 100% customizable, I was able to design my own cable-box control page complete with color-coded A, B and C buttons and everything...
Ultimately, it may be the patients who get hurt most, because a growing number of doctors, frightened of government scrutiny, are avoiding the use of powerful narcotics such as OxyContin, Vicodin, Percocet and Dilaudid. "It is impossible to be sure that a patient is not diverting any of his medication," says Dr. Thomas Stinson, a Medford, Mass., anesthesiologist who is closing his 20-year practice to new pain patients. "I fear I might be targeted...
...pain wars escalated last April when Virginia internist Dr. William Hurwitz was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison after 16 former patients testified against him and a jury found that the death of another patient was caused by an overdose. Hurwitz's assets were seized, and now he is appealing his conviction with the help of the pain foundation and the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. Hurwitz defenders acknowledge that he may have practiced overly aggressive medicine and allowed addicts to snooker him, but insist he never profited from drug sales and was not a criminal. "Maybe...
...opioids made a comeback in the 1980s, after patient groups and physicians focused attention on the problem of under-treated pain. Research showed that addiction did not necessarily result from aggressive, well-managed opioid therapy. In the 1990s, as the specialty of pain management grew in hospitals and universities, opioid use spread from cancer and end-of-life patients to the chronic-pain victims of industrial accidents, car crashes and conditions such as migraines, diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis...