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Jacobs has a healthy respect for grandmothers' folk remedies and for unconventional therapies in general. He comes by it naturally. For though he is a conventionally trained pediatrician, he is also the son of a part- Cherokee father and full-blooded Mohawk mother, who used to break out the herbs and tonics whenever he and his two brothers and sister had a fever or bellyache. "There would always be long-necked bottles filled with liquids sitting on a shelf in the closet, and a few bags of dried leaves -- turtle socks and other things -- that could be brewed into foul...
...wards. Each monitor is composed of tiny optic sensors that measure the levels of thousands of different fats, proteins, carbohydrates and other molecules in the capillaries just under the skin. Then the devices transmit all this information to the central computer screen at the front of the room. The pediatrician can discern at a glance whether his charges are exhibiting optimal health...
Brown, the respected author of Civil Wars and Tender Mercies, is a skilled and subtle observer. She pays careful, measured attention to the reactions of Carolyn, Jacob's mother, a pediatrician who believes that truth is too important for compromise; Ben, a talented sculptor who lies combatively for his son; and Judith, a bright, somewhat withdrawn girl who even before the crime was troubled by her brother's unruly sexuality. But too much care, too much measuring, give the novel a somewhat mechanical quality that prevents it from being first rate. Parents and sister are complex and believable, but seem...
...kills 4,000 Americans a year (see following story). Altogether, allergies and asthma affect as many as 50 million people in the U.S., costing them up to $5 billion annually and accounting for 1 of every 9 visits to the doctor, including 1 of every 5 trips to a pediatrician. Despite the mass discomfort, the allergy branch of the National Institutes of Health spent only $29 million on studies of allergic disease in fiscal 1991 and another $15 million on asthma-related research...
...psychiatrist also said that she believed Lozano was physically and sexually abused as a child, though his family pediatrician insists he saw no signs of abuse...