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...While privacy advocates applauded the broad-reaching rules, health care providers balked at the requirements, arguing that following such strict protocol would hurt them financially, and that waiting for written permission could conceivably delay a patient's treatment - even fatally...
...nominations (12), and the film with the most nominations has won the top prize 16 of the past 17 years. Gladiator is also a familiar kind of Oscar (and critical) favorite: a movie that reminds us of the better movies they don't make any more. Thus The English Patient was a psychological spectacle in the David Lean tradition; Shakespeare in Love was a screwball romance with fancy English; Braveheart was a historical epic, like Hamlet or A Man for All Seasons but with more blood and lots less eloquence...
...boutique outfit, based in New York City, has won a Best Picture nomination an amazing nine years in a row (two in 1998); the runner-up studio for consecutive years is DreamWorks, with three. Miramax films snared the top prize in two of the past four years: The English Patient and Shakespeare in Love. Now comes Chocolat, an English-language movie with a French accent and a Swedish director (Lasse Hallstrom), a negligible film whose greatest asset is its studio logo...
...certainly have become more patient with people. I've become better at listening to people's sad stories, and maybe even having something to say that's of some value. When I first began, I was overwhelmed. I was hearing about so many people dying. I didn't know what to say. I would just listen and say "I'm sorry," and then feel inadequate. But a lot of times, I've learned, what people really want is somebody to talk to. They want to know that somebody else has gone through it. They want to know that there...
Before Italian researchers first tried electricity in 1938, doctors used chemicals to induce the frightening, painful seizures. Electricity worked faster, but the pain of uncontrolled convulsions remained. Patients fractured their spine, bit their tongue, broke bones. Consequently, the devils who ran some asylums used electroshock as punishment. In many circles, it retains a frisson of barbarity. Writers such as Ernest Hemingway and Sylvia Plath reinforced the image. "It was a brilliant cure," Hemingway wrote sarcastically in the days after his electroshock and before shooting himself, "but we lost the patient...