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...their first town, Umm Qasr, and the American flag was reflexively raised in triumph, it was quickly hauled down. In the early hours of Operation Iraqi Freedom, its diplomacy was as stunning as its precision: from the reluctance to use maximum force for the first few nights to the patient efforts to secure a mass surrender to the decision - even after the awesome bombing began - to leave the electricity in Baghdad untouched and the public infrastructure intact. Donald Rumsfeld at war seems far more tactful than Donald Rumsfeld in peace...
...some cases the relationship between patient and caregiver can take on the character of a duel, wits on one side, willpower on the other. Eleanor Cooney's mother was brilliant and glamorous, a successful novelist who once won a beauty contest judged by Frank Sinatra. In Death in Slow Motion (HarperCollins; 251 pages), Cooney chronicles her mother's gradual, grinding dissolution--"death's warm-up act," Cooney calls it--describing the hallucinations and the circular conversations, the fits of rage and neediness that wreck her own life and get her mother kicked out of her nursing home...
...survey, patients said they wanted to know about any error that could potentially cause harm, whereas physicians said that they would make exceptions when the harm is trivial or they think a patient might not understand the error or want to know about it. As far as apologies go, both patients and physicians agreed they were a good idea in principle. Doctors, however, were worried that saying "I'm sorry" could imply legal liability...
...most important message is the one patients should take home. "Don't be afraid to speak up if you think there has been a medical error," advises Gallagher. "Most doctors are committed to providing information but sometimes struggle with how to provide context," he says. When a patient initiates the conversation, that often helps open the channels of communication. And that's always healthier, for patients and doctors alike...
...guru of love, or much of anything except for mathematics, which he teaches at a grubby Kathmandu school and to private students desperate to pass college-entrance exams. It's through these extra tutoring sessions that Ramchandra hopes to scrounge together enough rupees to move his family?his patient wife, Goma, and their two children?from their cramped apartment into a house of their own. This, Ramchandra repeats to himself, will prove his worth to his disdainful but wealthy in-laws, who see him as "a man who was worthless unless he continually moved toward better jobs and bigger houses...