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...decades, taking gifts from drugmakers has been business as usual for doctors. The pharmaceutical industry spent $22 billion on marketing to physicians (including free samples) in 2003, up from $12.1 billion in 1999, according to data from Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA). The industry is on track to spend almost $3 billion in 2005 solely on meetings and events for physicians, according to Verispan, a health-care market-research firm in Pennsylvania. The drug industry argues, with reason, that gift giving evolved as a necessary tool for sharing information about new drugs with busy physicians who needed incentives...
...unlikely background for a detective thriller about the mysterious death of a six-year-old Inuit boy. Unlikely too is the investigator, Smilla Qaavigaaq Jaspersen, a woman caught between the native Greenland culture of her hunter-tracker mother and the well-appointed world of her Danish father, a physician and scientist. Like Ross Macdonald in his Lew Archer novels of darkest California, Hoeg creates an unfamiliar but palpable world that steadily envelops the reader...
...Western-trained physician who has practiced even briefly in a poor country is acutely aware of how inequitably money and medical care are distributed in the world. Farmer, who grew up in a Florida trailer park, has developed what Kidder calls a "comprehensive theory of poverty," which Farmer elaborates on in books that are surprisingly angry for so gentle a man. In Pathologies of Power (2003), his most recent, he argues that the only antidote for the "structural violence" that keeps the poor too sick to climb out of the hole they are in is to treat health care...
Enter Peter Okaalet, 52, a physician who decided in the late 1980s to go to seminary in an attempt to bridge the gap. From his base in Nairobi, where he serves as Africa director for a Christian medical-assistance group called MAP International, Okaalet has spent the past 12 years working with ministers--and by extension their congregations--to refine and in some cases redefine their response to AIDS. To that end he has run countless seminars in Kenya and elsewhere and helped establish master's degree programs in pastoral care and HIV/AIDS at 14 seminaries and Bible colleges...
...Leon Ngoma Miezi Kintaudi, 56, is one physician who is bucking the trend. Born 150 miles from Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, formerly known as Zaïre, he moved to the U.S. after finishing high school and worked his way through college and medical school in California. But while treating patients in a public-health clinic in Los Angeles, he kept thinking about Congo. He watched the country deteriorate in the 1990s as civil war took hold. On trips to visit his mother, who refused to move, Kintaudi says, "I started dreaming about doing something...