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...pediatrician in practice??for 22 years, I think the messages in Cottle's essay are important for doctors in all specialties to understand: have respect for your patients' time, listen to what they are saying and directly address their concerns. In other words, examine and treat the patient's body but also pay attention to the person inside...
At the Philadelphia Eagles' practice??complex one day last week, the producer of quarterback Donovan McNabb's weekly local TV show asked if he would be available for an interview a day before Super Bowl XXXIX in Jacksonville, Fla. With mock seriousness, McNabb warned that the hoopla of the game, between the Eagles and defending champion New England Patriots, might leave him stretched for time. "Worst case, just get some guy off the street in Jacksonville to go on," McNabb joked. He then found a problem with that plan. "The guy would say, 'Donovan who? A quarterback? You mean...
Luce's life was marked by an extraordinary inner consistency. His profound curiosity seems to have been with him from the start. His intellectual style, the way he arrived at ideas and put them into practice???a process often awesome in its intensity?hardly changed over a career that spanned 45 years. Even what he wrote in college rang no note of dissonance with the utterances of his later life. His deeply felt views about religion, country, freedom and society, though they broadened and became more complex, seemed to be present in microcosm during his childhood...
...poses, for example, the problem of how three older men feel when a boss promotes a youngster over them. To a student who argues that feelings don't matter, only success does, Athos says crisply: "I would like to suggest that you talk an ideology that you do not practice???even in this classroom." To another: "You think that the boss knows what he's doing because you identify with the boss, as you do in every other case." To a third: "Why do you say these other three guys are just lazy bastards...
...logical, austere. Their devotion to classic purity, to the sanctity of the composer's intent, spawned a new school of junior-executive pianists, most of them Americans, noted for their technical brilliance and carbon-copy sameness. Rubinstein, with more regret than scorn, calls them "bank clerks." They practice, practice, practice???and when they go onstage, so remote is their detachment from their audience that they practice some more...