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...need to study the Lorenz curve. The eye-opening experience of working with the BMC patient community provides a dramatic apotheosis of economic inequality in America. The help desk volunteers counsel families on the basics--how to secure housing, food, employment, vocational training and cash assistance--before ever having rented their own apartment, paying substantial income tax, breast-feeding a baby or signing a lease...
Likewise another trend: our growing tendency to talk and think in the bulky, arcane dialect of the law. A doctor I know has noticed, for example, that when she asks a new patient, "Do you have any allergies?" she frequently gets the response, "Not to the best of my knowledge." I suspect this is a kind of folk formality: people think the legalistic phrasing drapes their talk in a cape of gravity. And in the past year references to "perjury," "suborning of perjury," "lying under oath" and "obstruction of justice" have entered our conversations as if we were all first...
...alternative endorsed by Aids Education and Outreach is anonymous testing, which identifies a patient only by bar code and keeps the results completely secret...
...anonymity is important, Frazier said sheherself recommends the patient seek an alternativesite, such as Cambridge City Hospital, whichoffers completely anonymous tests...
...hematologist, I face that problem every day when a patient turns up with some blood abnormality--say, a low white count--and then is found to have taken drug A or drug B, though nowadays many are down to P or Q--and I am not speaking of recreational drugs...