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...awesome as it is, an MRI is only one of the diagnostic tests at a physician's disposal. A PET scan, for instance, is even more complicated, measuring how much energy is being used by your cells in order to give an energy-use mapping of a slice of your body. It is better at showing some tumors than any other imaging method. We have tri-spiral CT scanners, radionucleide bone scanners, EKG-gated CT angiographic scanners. We can test the electrical activity of brain, muscle and nerve. We can test your blood in two thousand different ways...
...patients were as loyal as they come. People outside the world of medical specialists don't appreciate how certain internists have certain kinds of patients. It's amazingly consistent - rather like pet owners resembling their pets. Nervous, frightened internists have nervous, frightened patients. Puffed-up, formal ones have puffed-up, self-important patients. Nice guys have friendly, reasonable patients. Don had great patients. When we discussed them he knew every little fact about them...
...doesn?t complain. She has a smile for everyone. Some critics might say Sara Lopez "lacks independence," because she lives with her parents. But she adores her family, who immigrated from Oaxaca before she was born. They own a little blue house in Mid-City Los Angeles, with a pet chicken in the backyard who lays an egg every morning...
...This is a half-past-six country which has no guts." MAHATHIR MOHAMAD, Malaysia's former Prime Minister, warning that the government's decision to scrap a new bridge with Singapore, which was one of his pet projects, shows Malaysia is unwilling to stand up for itself. Singapore had opposed the bridge...
...course, has a special place in the West, and particularly in the U.S. Dogs are the country’s most popular pet, and are well serviced by a growing industry: Good Americans can find thousands of Internet sites designed to help them feed, bathe, and clothe his mutt—and, for the really committed, dog psychologists and professional dog photographers. One Baltimore news site run by CBS even hosts a “Dog Daily” blog complete with “tips for empowering your relationship [with your dog]” (http://wjz.com/pets)....