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...immune system to do its job. In a condition of emotional devastation, immune function is impaired. Conversely, liberation from depression and panic is frequently accompanied by an increase in the body's interleukins, vital substances in the immune system that help activate cancer-killing immune cells. The wise physician, therefore, is conscious of both the physical and emotional needs of the patient...
Plainly, the American people need to be re-educated about their health. They need to know that they are the possessors of a remarkably robust mechanism. They need to be de-intimidated about disease. They need to understand the concept of a patient-physician partnership in which the best that medical science has to offer is combined with the magnificent resources of mind and body...
Stern is a sociological immigrant as well. A recent widower, he repeatedly finds himself in situations where he must adjust to new customs. Sensitivity, he discovers, is outmoded. His physician son Peter sounds like an Army medic when he tells his father to drop his drawers during a urological examination. Daughter Marta, a lawyer, does not ask permission when she moves in to help with the Maison Dixon case. Women have changed in other ways. They are eager to introduce him to tricky bedroom maneuvers. "Did you like that?" asks one. "The wings of a dove," is Stern's courtly...
...federal laws require doctors to begin treatment of all babies except those who would clearly not benefit. But no regulations guide a physician's decision to stop treatment. This has become a pressing issue because the very technology that can save infants often inflicts profound ; handicaps, such as blindness, cerebral palsy and other neurological disorders. Among the effects of erring on the side of life, say the authors: "We save some who would otherwise have died, we do immediate harm to and inflict long- term suffering on many who survive, and we expend an enormous amount of money on neonatal...
Many Med School faculty do outside work--whether it be as a practicing physician at a local hospital or a researcher for a biomedical company--and most accept it as common practice. That is why so many Med School faculty cringed when Harvard began discussing ways of regulating, and perhaps limiting, the outside work of its physicians...