Word: physicians
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...dedicated his career to improving the health and well-being of children the world over through his unique abilities as a physician, educator and administrator," said David S. Weiner, the current president and chief executive officer of Children's Hospital who succeeded Cronkhite as president. "At Children's, he brought extraordinary leadership and a vision of the changing role of the modern hospital in our complex society...
...your articles exploring the role of spirituality in healing [MEDICINE, June 24]! For thousands of years, mystics have been saying the mind and body are one. We can surgically remove a symptom or illness, but if it remains in the mind, it will return to the body. According to physician and spiritual healer Deepak Chopra, the whole system needs to be treated. I hope that more of the medical community will take the opportunity to bridge the mind-body connection, looking to Chopra as the leader, the spokesman helping to bring medicine and mysticism closer together. JAMES SMALLWOOD Santa Barbara...
...practicing physician and Buddhist, I find Chopra's metaphors to be flowery, vague and frothy. We have witnessed the phenomenon of Indian gurus many times before. It is just another scheme to tap into the thirst for spiritual values felt by the American middle and upper classes. It will be interesting to see how long Chopra and his disciples last. HUNG T. VU Fremont, California...
...infuriates Afghans, but some reserve a special anger for America. They believe the U.S. has turned its back on the country it once supported, indifferent to its suffering. "Those friends who armed us to the teeth didn't think what will happen in the future," says Zekria Bakhshi, a physician with the Red Cross. "Because the cold war was finished, they said, 'Let them kill each other...
Fractured as it is, the mind/body landscape features one uniting figure. Deepak Chopra, 49, is a physician, an endocrinologist who came to the U.S. in 1970. He is also a mystic in an ancient tradition, Hinduism. But his true genius lies in synthesis, in an amalgamated vision he can express in the language of computers or Arthurian magic or devotional verse...