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That's why the teen and tot clinic is such a good idea; one physician sees the mother and child together until the child is five years old. If we can all acknowledge the great impact of the family on childhood development, we need to take every opportunity to work with the family unit as a whole and create services that understand these connections...
Before the technology, however, came philanthropy. In June 1999, Dan Clay, a California emergency-room physician, set up a charity clinic on the outskirts of Mitrovica. Kadriu soon heard about it and went to see "Dr. Dan." Like every other doctor who was later to meet the young man, Clay was shocked. He also recognized that the injury was far beyond his expertise to treat. "I've spent half my career in ERs in some of the most violent cities in America, seen all kinds of mangled human beings, but I've never come across anyone still alive carrying such...
Even when our own doctor tells us to get our colon checked, we don't always listen. A year and a half ago, Florence Seguin, 73, of Williamsburg, Va., shrugged off her physician's recommendation that she undergo a colonoscopy, a procedure in which a doctor inserts a flexible lighted tube into the colon to look for abnormal growths. A former nun and the adoptive mother of a 13-year-old boy, Seguin knew that one of her brothers had died of colon cancer, but it wasn't until she saw an article about Couric and Monahan that she stopped...
...years ago at age 48, she told her doctors about most of her symptoms. But she never talked about the way her stools had changed shape (and she wasn't asked). The pains must be menopause, the doctors decided. Then a year ago, during a flexible sigmoidoscopy, a physician discovered a tumor the size of a golf ball that had begun to spread. Aggressive treatment seems to have left Billingsley cancer free. Now she's on a mission to persuade family and friends to be screened. "I just goad them until they do it," she says. Katie Couric would...
DOCTOR DEATH In Oregon, the only state that permits physician-assisted suicide, that option was chosen by 27 terminally ill patients last year, up from 16 in 1998. A new study finds that most of these suicides involved insured, well-educated and elderly cancer patients rather than the poor and depressed, as the law's critics feared. A survey of doctors, however, found that most patients who ask about suicide change their minds after getting enhanced pain treatment...