Word: patients
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Which disorders and what symptoms? Generally the thyroid causes problems in two different ways. The more common disorder, hypothyroidism, occurs when the gland fails to produce enough thyroid hormone. The body's metabolism slows down, and the patient complains of not having any energy and feeling mentally sluggish...
...himself in videos of other hitters in the off season and has tuned in fully to the advice of Cub coaches. "I always thought this guy could really put up some gigantic numbers if we could get him to swing at better pitches and get him to be more patient," said batting coach Jeff Pentland. Sosa agrees: "I don't want to go to the home plate with the idea that I need to hit a home run. I just want to relax and use all the field. When I do that, I know I can hit a home...
...details are sketchy, perhaps even to the principals themselves. But Weinstein makes the whole thing sound easy: "The idea is to marry the two cultures together and say, 'This is a brilliant story that takes place in England; we'll give that to Anthony Minghella [director of The English Patient]. This is something that's feminist and sexy; that sounds like Jane Campion [The Piano]." Ahh. Why didn't Jeffrey Katzenberg think of that...
Next to a boy and his dog or a girl and her horse, no fictional setup is quite as durable--and automatically touching if done well--as the story of a sick man and his nurse. Now, to A Farewell to Arms and The English Patient, add another memorable star-crossed Red Cross romance: Thomas Moran's second novel, The World I Made for Her (Riverhead; 273 pages; $23.95), which delves into the bond between James Blatchley, a semicomatose New York City cop, and Nuala Riordan, his Irish-immigrant caregiver. Struck down (as the author himself was once...
...Republicans running for reelection were finding that their party's apparent support of the insurance companies was working against them," says Tumulty. Both parties now agree on reforms that would speed access to specialist care, make HMOs pay for unnecessary emergency room treatment when it was reasonable for the patient to assume there was a crisis, give patients access to more information on treatment options, and subject disputed coverage decisions to speedy third-party review. What they can't agree on is a mechanism for enforcing those changes...