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...that the media by and large favor the Establishment, FAIR seeks to focus "public awareness on the narrow corporate ownership of the press, the media's persistent cold war assumptions and their insensitivity to women, labor, minorities and other public interest constituencies." Its eclectic board includes writer Studs Terkel, pediatrician Dr. Benjamin Spock, renowned thespians Daryl Hannah and Edward Asner, singer Jackson Browne and third-tier rock star Steve Van Zandt, the former guitarist with Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band...
Critics of remote-control medicine say communicating by phone may be a reasonable way to diagnose a problem with a car, but not to understand the intricacies of human disease. Dr. Daniel Isaacman, a pediatrician at Pittsburgh's Childrens Hospital who has examined the question of remote diagnosis, cites a study in which 61 emergency-room doctors were contacted by phone and presented with the same hypothetical patient, a baby boy with a 102 degrees fever. For a child under two months, such a fever can signal a life- threatening infection. Nearly 30% of doctors responding...
Kagan can foresee, in the future, his tests being applied on a wide level. "Concerned parents would take their child to the pediatrician in order to estimate the odds that he would be shy," Kagan said. However, before such a test can be administered in such a manner, it needs to be standardized, and pediatricians need to become interested in it, Kagan said...
...more than two years, Reagan and Bush officials tried to avoid facing the issue. They treated the former pediatrician, now 63, mainly as an immigration problem, keeping him jailed in Miami as an "excludable alien" while trying to find a country that would accept him. Meanwhile, Florida Republicans pressed for his release. Last week the Justice Department yielded to the pressure, freeing the Castro foe. Explained one official: "The Cuba lobby did it again...
...Harvard Business Review, she proposed that professional women who prefer not to sacrifice family to ambition be relegated to a slower career path that would top out at middle management. They would get by with shorter hours and schedules flexible enough to permit the occasional trip to the pediatrician or school play...