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Anyone who believes that drugs can't help the mentally ill should listen to Dr. Murray Frances. The 44-year-old physician recovered from 20 years of severe schizophrenia after taking the drug Clozapine. As Frances explains in Schizophrenia: Voices of an Illness, a remarkable documentary that will air on National Public Radio stations this week, even her hallucinatory inner voices somehow understood that medicine was their enemy. "You're not going to take that!" they screamed years earlier when doctors urged her to take the medication Haldol. "Do you want us to go away?" Frightened, Frances resisted that drug...
...Raymond Walther, another physician at the clinic, said the change was positive. Walk-ins, he noted, place a tremendous strain on physicians...
Chairman Mao Tsetung, the architect and chief engineer of Communist China, had a randy, raunchy side, according to his doctor and confidant. Physician Li Zhisui writes in his 663-page memoir, "The Private Life of Chairman Mao," that the iconic leader was a decadent, selfish cutthroat who enjoyed nightly massages, orgiastic romps and extramarital sex with young girls. Among the other grisly details: the doc says Mao didn't care about spreading a sexually-transmitted disease, stayed in his bathrobe weeks at a time and drank green tea in lieu of brushing his teeth...
...different than any other conference I've ever attended," said Dr. Eva E. Metalios, a primary care physician from New York who works in a clinic for immigrants seeking political asylum...
Similar feelings of disgust with the media are common not only among students but also with the local public Victoria Russell '66, a physician from Milton who returned to the U.S. Saturday after spending six weeks in France, says she appreciated her distance from the events...