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...Patching the Safety Net A series of clinic visits by one patient made me realize just how broken the current health care system is ? and what can be done...
...here," says Doctor Ahmad Mrowe, the hospital's director. All main roads and most minor routes have been severed in multiple places by massive air bombs that gouge out yawning craters, making for a lengthy and terrifying experience for anyone brave or desperate enough to travel; one new patient had spent eight hours on the road, shuttled by eight separate vehicles, to reach the hospital, a journey that under normal circumstances would take only 20 minutes...
...care to the people in Africa who need it most, Anthony Okello is not the solution that comes immediately to mind. He's a medicine man, apprenticed as a teenager to the wandering witch doctor who treated him for a fever that other doctors couldn't cure. When a patient goes to Okello complaining of rashes and diarrhea, as Lucy Ajam did recently, he recognizes the typical symptoms of AIDS for what they are. He immediately sent Ajam to the nearest hospital to start her on antiretroviral drugs (ARVs)--an approach even a traditionalist like Ajam heartily endorses. "For minor...
Later, the most famous patient of the war lay under a sheet, three of her limbs in bandages, and cried. It was not so much the pain but the feeling, the desolation, of being alone and helpless. She had never been alone. She had slept within reach of her baby sister. She was from a family where her mother would pull one of her teenage daughters into her lap and hold her just because it felt nice. Even after she had left home there had been Lori and Ruben...
...enclave for the wealthy is undeserved. Ann O'Doye London Next Best Thing to a Cure time reported on the growing demand in Europe for alternative treatments for illness [June 26]. I've been a complementary practitioner for more than eight years and have successfully treated many patients who had tried everything that mainstream medicine had to offer, sometimes repeatedly, but whose conditions still remained painful. The success of my work resides in engaging a patient's mind-set, by giving honest opinions, time and simple strategies to aid recovery. I disapprove of the word cure, for no such thing...