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...Omen Hong Kong surgeons can no longer use cell phones in the operating theater after a patient complained that a doctor took a 14-minute call while removing an intestinal polyp...
...courses for both new and third-generation immigrants. Several states are in the process of offering German and Turkish language classes in Islam, and more and more kindergartens and pre-schools are teaching both Turkish and German. Turkish immigrants are fond of quoting the traditional saying, "He who is patient will always reach his goal." But their children's prospects will be brighter if they recite it to them in German...
Such fascinating stages. Initially there is a kind of troubled yet sweet awareness that the clock of the patient's mind is a few seconds off. Then an encroaching recognition of loss of function becomes less recognition and greater loss. Soon words and phrases are looped, like mad lines from a postmodern play; then Tourette's-like bursts, frags, some incomprehensible, some vile; then less of that, less of everything, until the mind is concentrated down to a curious stare. Even in death, my mother's face looked worried...
Sometime in the next 10 weeks, surgeons will remove the heart from a dying cardiac patient and replace it with the device seen at right--the first fully implantable, entirely self-contained mechanical heart. The $75,000 pump is a technological tour de force. Fashioned of titanium and plastic, it is powered by a wallet-size battery pack that transmits energy to a coil under the skin. Patients should be able to walk, shower, even return to work--as long as they recharge every four hours. AbioMed hopes to install more if the experimental design works reliably and delivers good...
SENIOR MOMENTS Doctors know Alzheimer's can shorten a patient's life. But now Canadian researchers report that once someone is found to have Alzheimer's or another form of dementia, the median survival may be only about three years--one-half to two-thirds less than previously thought...