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...Young, handsome and smarter than a truckful of generals, Ko Myo is a teacher by profession and my guide to the arcane politics of Burma. Thankfully, he's a patient one. On my first trip to Burma, he had bravely taken me to the house of a prominent democrat. Stupidly, I had no idea who she was or what risks Ko Myo had taken to bring me there. Today, he takes a spoonful of tea-leaf salad and shakes his head in mock disgust. "To think I risked a 10-year prison sentence for that," he says...
...will be particularly true if--and it's still a big if--the rebellion among the Shi'ites spreads well beyond where it is today. Having given more than 600 of their sons and daughters to remove Saddam and help rebuild the country, Americans are not likely to be patient if the majority of Iraqis seem to be turning on them...
...government officially began keeping track--up from 10.4% in 1975. According to Dr. Samantha Collier, vice president of medical affairs at HealthGrades, a company that rates the quality of health care in the U.S., about 22% of those C-sections--or 63,000 births per year--are purely by patient choice, a 20% increase since 1999. "In the next couple of years," says Collier, "we're going to see this go through the roof...
...least that is one of the conclusions of a study published in last week's Journal of the American Medical Association. When doctors at a family-medicine clinic in Calgary, Alta., depended on clinical observation to determine whether or not a patient with a sore throat needed antibiotics, they guessed wrong 40% of the time--making the kind of error that only furthers the spread of drug-resistant diseases. Doctors got the best results if they relied on a microbiologic lab test--either a two-day throat culture or the somewhat less accurate 20-min. rapid test...
...patient if your doctor swabs your sore throat or your child's instead of immediately prescribing antibiotics. That will increase the chances that the drugs will still work when you really need them...