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Last summer, as he took a break on the Gaborone, Botswana,- set of his latest film, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Anthony Minghella was trying to put success into perspective. He had won an Oscar for 1996's The English Patient, a film that became so ingrained in the collective cinematic consciousness it had an episode of Seinfeld dedicated to it. He had worked with a selection of the A-list: Jude Law, Renee Zellwegger, Matt Damon, Nicole Kidman. And he had built a reputation as the go-to guy for contemplative, complex, slowly unfolding films, the thinking...
...awards, before going on to become a TV script editor and writer. After his feature debut, the 1990 comedy Truly, Madly, Deeply, starring Alan Rickman and Juliet Stevenson, there was the low-key comedy Mr. Wonderful with Matt Dillon and Mary-Louise Parker. Then came The English Patient, which won nine Oscars, including Best Director and Best Picture - and suddenly people started paying attention. "He directed most of The English Patient with an ankle in plaster, never losing his gentle humor and precision," said Ralph Fiennes, who was nominated for an Oscar for his role as Count Laszlo de Almasy...
Critics often note that electronic records leave sensitive data vulnerable to hackers or system failures. Allscripts customer Dr. Jim Morrow, however, argues his patients' privacy is actually more secure. Morrow is CIO of Atlanta's North Fulton Family Medicine group, whose 11 doctors adopted electronic records in 1998. "With paper, what's to stop the night janitor or front desk clerk from reading your record?" Morrow says. "Our charts all require passwords to limit access." Plus, Morrow adds, with Allscripts, which gives health-care providers online access to records and enables them to automate everyday tasks such as billing, scheduling...
While the days of cigarette ads featuring smiling physicians are long gone, even today there remains a hypocritical culture of poor health among doctors. While it would seem that the very people whose job is to maintain the health of their patients would make better health decisions than smoking, the high-stress life of medicine has been the most common reason for engaging in this addictive habit. To combat this, Harvard Medical School (HMS) recently announced a cigarette smoking ban on campus grounds—a move highly consistent with the mission of the school and a strong step forward...
...Sebire's goal remains fixed: circumvent the 2005 law passed following a controversial mercy killing by a mother and doctor of a tetrapalegic, blind, and virtually shut-in patient who made his desire to die clear. In crafting that legislation, French lawmakers sought to draw a fine line between allowing terminal patients to die and active euthanasia, or mercy-killing, which is permissible under certain conditions in the Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland...