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...that the water quality always met EPA standards and that the incident could as easily have happened in a municipally run facility. "We went into this deal with our eyes open, knowing we'd have better and worse years. This is a long-term investment. The Europeans are very patient. And we're on target for success over the 20-year period...
...young woman who kept losing weight even when prescribed a high-calorie diet. Her doctors, convinced that she was lying about her food intake, suspected anorexia or bulimia, but her problem, diagnosed after years of ill health, turned out to be celiac disease--an allergy to wheat. Had the patient been male or older or less anxious, the doctors might have got it right in the first place...
ERROR 4: I HATE (OR LOVE) THIS PATIENT...
Groopman cautions that emotions are more of an issue than most physicians like to admit. Doctors who are particularly fond of a patient have been known to miss the diagnosis of a life-threatening cancer because they just didn't want it to be true. But negative emotions can be just as blinding, sometimes stopping a doctor from going the extra mile. "If you sense that your doctor is irritated with you, that he or she doesn't like you," says Groopman, "then it's time to get a new doctor." Studies show that most patients are pretty accurate...
...mess and shock, the only thing lacking in “Back to Black” is, well, more mess and shock. Winehouse’s grainy and emotional voice should soar and dance; you expect trills and thrills, decadence and manic madness. But after being patient through the entire album, waiting for it to get really, really exciting, you discover that Winehouse keeps things disappointingly in check, favoring smooth R&B lines and lush vibrato...