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...maintain continuity at universities so students could finish their degrees and enter the job market on schedule. As a result, says Professor al-Bayati, everywhere he looks he sees colleagues who were integral figures in the old order. University president Mohammed al-Rawi, who was also Saddam's personal physician, kept his job. Al-Bayati says al-Rawi did nothing to defend him when he was framed as a spy after quitting the party in 1991 to protest Saddam's invasion of Kuwait. Al-Bayati's replacement as head of the university's computer program, Ahmed Makki Saaed, has retained...
That macho attitude seems to extend to the care men take of their bodies. Women are twice as likely as men to visit their doctor once a year and more likely to explore broad-based preventive health plans with their physician. Men are less likely to schedule checkups or to follow up when symptoms arise. "Men also tend to internalize" and "self-medicate" their psychological problems, says Williams, while women tend to seek professional help. Virtually all stress-related diseases--from hypertension to heart disease--are more common...
...Gephardt's Democratic rivals, only former Vermont Governor Howard Dean criticized his proposal - on the record, at least. Dean, a physician, plans to make health care a centerpiece of his own campaign, called the Gephardt plan expensive and impractical; his own idea centers on expanding medicaid, and he contends he could achieve universal health coverage at half the cost of the Gephardt proposal. He promises to spell out the details, including its costs, when he gives the commencement address on June 4 at his alma mater, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine...
...could work all day, my marks would be off the board, but to me it’s important to do extracurriculars and interact with people. That will make me a better physician,” he says...
...Despite all the hardships involved, reservists and their families say service pays in ways that may not be so easy to understand for those who have never had the experience. Monterey Brookman estimates that her physician husband's service in Somalia "probably cost us a million dollars." But, she adds, "we would pay every penny of that because it was, for my husband, worth a million and then some to be fulfilling his mission as a doctor and an American...