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...Bali's capital Denpasar, Sanglah Hospital was filled with the wounded and the dead. Irzalisa Irsjafri, a 31-year-old Indonesian patient covered in cuts and bruises, says she was eating with 13 friends on the beach when there was a huge noise: "I got up and saw bodies all around, not moving. I'm sure they were dead." Her husband suffered abdominal injuries and remains in intensive care. Outside the hospital, young Indonesian men light candles for the victims. White cloth banners are strung along a fence, reflecting the anger and despair the attacks have generated among Balinese. "Kill...
Solomon said the “$64,000 question” raised by his findings is why post hoc clinical studies—which look at patients already receiving statins as part of a larger patient group—find no association between statins and the frequency of bone fractures, while observational studies—which administer statins and lipid-lowering drugs to patients—find such an association...
...still highly controversial. "I believe he believes he had all those separate personalities," says Joe Scroppo, a clinical psychologist and director of North Shore University Hospital's Forensic Psychiatry Program in Manhasset, N.Y., "but I don't think that's necessarily the way it is." Studies have suggested that patients can be convinced that they have memories of childhood sexual abuse that never actually occurred. And sometimes, says Scroppo, therapists use multiple personality as a metaphor for a patient's mental state, and then the patient--and therapist--begin to mistake the metaphor for reality...
Then things got really bad. One day, what seemed like seconds after he had begun a session with his psychiatrist, Dr. Jeffrey Smith, the doctor informed his astonished patient that their time was up. "I spent this past 50 minutes," he told Oxnam, "talking with ... Tommy. He's full of anger. And he's inside of you." In short, Smith explained, Oxnam was suffering from what used to be called multiple-personality disorder. (It's now known as dissociative identity disorder.) Like Sybil, the character in the 1970s book and TV movie, he had several independent identities...
...searching for a job that will be here in 10 years, no doubt nursing is first. You can't assist with surgery and help a patient sit up from overseas, and by 2012, the U.S. will add more than 620,000 registered nurses, more than any other occupation, according to the BLS. Why? With 77 million baby boomers approaching retirement age and preventive health care growing, nurses are in demand. Technology has shortened hospital stays for many patients, but the ones left behind are the sickest and require even more attention. Median annual earnings for nurses...