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...work and no play could make for some very messed-up kids. Child experts, usually a divided bunch, agree: fun is good. "Play is the most powerful way a child explores the world and learns about himself," says T. Berry Brazelton, a pediatrician at Harvard Medical School who has written a number of books on parenting. Unstructured play encourages independent thinking and allows the young to negotiate their relationships with their peers, but kids ages 3 to 12 spent only 12 hours a week engaged in it. Brazelton warns, "If we don't pay attention to this, we're going...
Wilcox, who said she is interested in becoming a pediatrician, said she "picked this particular [research opportunity] because it dealt with pediatrics, in a real hands-on manner...
...some ways acting like a union, negotiate how much money they will charge to provide care. An IPA also gives doctors more control over how they do their jobs, something managed care has been taking away. "The doctors want to be listened to," says Dr. Dennis Clements, a Duke pediatrician and PrimaHealth member physician. "Why did we go to all that school if someone with an M.B.A. is going to make all the decisions...
...treatment" by spiritual means. Champions of repeal, of course, feel otherwise. A report in the April issue of the professional journal Pediatrics documented 140 child deaths "from religion-motivated medical neglect" between 1975 and 1995, attributed to 23 religious denominations in 34 states. Its co-author, Texas critical-care pediatrician Seth Asser, believes there are hundreds of similar, unreported fatalities. "Kids die from accidental deployment of air bags, and you get hearings in Congress," says Asser. "But this goes on, and dozens die, and people think there's no problem because the deaths happen one at a time...
...acknowledge that Rebecca isn't genetically one of theirs. Blame it on shell shock: on July 21, only 2 1/2 weeks after the accident, the hospital told them Rebecca wasn't their granddaughter. Perhaps foreshadowing a lawsuit, the Rogerses say hospital officials cruelly ignored their grief. Linda says a pediatrician called her at the Wal-Mart pharmacy, where she works, to tell her he had news about Rebecca he had to relay in person. Later a doctor showed up with a syringe, asking for Rebecca's blood for a DNA test. (Hospital officials believe Rebecca is Johnson's biological daughter...