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...Sudanese men stressed the importance of U.S. involvement, a stronger justice system, and classifying the situation in Darfur as genocide to resolve the conflict in the region during a speech in Emerson Hall last night. Barodi M. Fashir, a physician of internal medicine, and Salih Mayhoud Osman, a lawyer and human rights activist, addressed and took questions from an audience of about 30. After quoting both of President Bush’s inaugural addresses in which he promised aid to countries suffering from human rights injustices, Fashir asked that the U.S. keep Bush’s promises...
...Professor Alice Mark, Harvard Medical School instructor and Obstetrics and Gynecology physician at Brigham and Woman’s Hospital, should Tom Cruise have eaten his child’s placenta...
...more control patients have over their own care-the more they know, the more involved they are in the design of their care-the better. We haven't even begun to plumb the real potential of patients who have been taught how to become their own physicians (to the extent that they want to). Despite the rhetoric, most people can't even get access to their own medical records, and it's often next to impossible to find data on how one's own hospital or physician performs compared with others. Some people fear that, given choices, patients will...
...current care system is hospital-centric and physician-centric. We cannot have excellent, coordinated, patient-centered, economical health care without a strong backbone of primary care, and without a vibrant, proud, and joyful nursing workforce. Yet fewer and fewer young people are choosing to go into primary care careers (instead, we are getting an oversupply in specialties like ophthalmology, radiology, anaesthesiology, and dermatology) and the average age of an American nurse is now over 47 years...
...easier to work out which car is safer for your family or which videocamera best suits your needs than it is to find the most experienced sports medicine physician or the best hospital for chemotherapy. In the absence of a Consumer Reports guide to every hospital and doctor in America, these web sites-some free, some fee-based-mine the available data to help guide patients through the maze. (Many insurance company's sites offer similar services: be sure to check yours...