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...think there are tremendous benefits to the use of data in our medical care, not so much at the individual patient level, but at the system-wide level," said panelist Denise Nagel, a doctor who is Executive Director of the Coalition for Patient Rights...
...husband's urging, she was hospitalized in a psychiatric unit, dosed with Thorazine and given shock therapy. When she got out of the straitjacket, she dumped Jones and married a fellow patient with a drinking and gambling problem. She apparently hadn't yet developed her keen knack for character judgment. Faye lost custody of Michelle in court because she was certifiable now, tagged with crazy papers for life. But you don't put a foot to Billie Faye's neck without her biting your leg, so she grabbed Michelle and ran. The hell with the courts. She ran for Michelle...
...Times coverage had shifted to the business section to focus on all the money that Entremed's stockholders had made, in an article pointed to from the front page by a rather timid feature piece with a different byline. It opened by recounting the frustrations of a desperate patient. By Tuesday afternoon, Entremed's stock had faded another six points to under 45. Just 48 hours after it was first floated, a cancer cure is not much closer to reality -- unless, of course, you're a mouse...
Perhaps more disturbing are the psychological disturbances associated with hyperthyroidism--emotional imbalance, irritability, impatience, difficulty concentrating and fluctuating depression. In extreme cases, a hyperthyroid patient may appear schizophrenic, losing touch with reality and becoming delirious or hallucinatory. Such symptoms have led some hyperthyroid sufferers to be misdiagnosed, hospitalized for months and treated unsuccessfully for psychosis...
...experiment by young Emily Rosa, testing whether the medical practice of therapeutic touch is effective [SCIENCE, April 13], underscores the fact that the mind and body combine to contribute to healing. TT may be total nonsense except when the patient believes in it. You can get the same effect by letting a patient pet and cuddle a puppy. The healing is real; it is caused not by waving hands or furry friends but by the power of the human spirit. Should puppies get paid $70 an hour for "therapy"? Doctors can't write a prescription for that--yet. STEVE STOVER...