Word: patients
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...debate gets downright vicious when the subject turns to "chronic Lyme disease," a catch-all term that means different things to different people. Some patient advocates and their medical allies believe the Lyme spirochete tends to persist in the body even after standard antibiotic treatment. This camp generally favors intravenous antibiotic therapy to treat chronic Lyme. On the other hand, some academic researchers and their allies argue that people with chronic Lyme fall into one of two categories: they either have hypersensitive immune systems that have overreacted to an earlier, no longer viable, Lyme infection--in which case antibiotics...
...Julie told us was, 'Don't upstage the puppet.' As an actor, that's the last thing you want to hear." Taymor has nothing but praise for her game cast, which also includes John Vickery as the villainous Scar and Samuel E. Wright as Mufasa. "They have been unbelievably patient. No one has said, 'I can't do this...
...these, seen in 70-mm and magnificently accompanied in stereo by Maurice Jarre's glittering music, are worlds away from the reduced-version, letterbox format to which they've been downgraded, albeit unavoidably, on video. The desert cinematography isn't as sensuously poetic as that of "The English Patient," which has evoked comparisons; but there's a stark grandeur to its vision that suits the nature of the story far better...
...YORK: After yesterday's public trashing by AT&T of outgoing president John Walters, TIME's Daniel Kadlec says the company's normally patient investors are growing restless. "CEO Bob Allen can't decide whether he's going to retire or stay. He can't decide on a successor. He has big merger plans (with Bell company SBC Communications), which the government won't let him carry out. Now he's coming out and saying, 'The guy I picked isn't smart enough for the job.' There's lots of room for investors to wonder whether this company will...
...less effective. "Just because you can stay twice as long at Dunn doesn't mean it's better health care," Birdzell says. He adds that Bedford Regional's drug-selection policies are not cost-driven. It prescribes both TPA and streptokinase, for instance, depending on the specifics of the patient's condition. As for specialists, Bedford Regional says its HMO patients see them when appropriate, even though their use is carefully monitored. Actually, Bedford Regional argues, its more modern approach can be better. For example, the hospital is starting up a teleradiology laboratory that takes advantage of the fact that...