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...surprised by your lumping ADHD into a severe-mental-illness category. First, ADHD, most often considered a disorder, can be apparent as early as 4 or 5, as soon as a child is required to sit still in a formal setting. It can last into old age. The prevention you cite is simplistic at best: you don't prevent ADHD; you manage it. Carol Freedman, MATAWAN...
...offer the best care: If the doctor is negligent in monitoring the patient's condition or fails to counsel the patient fully about proper diet and exercise, that patient could have a heart attack - requiring more treatments - and the doctor would take a financial hit. "The more defects you prevent, the more money you make," says Francois de Brantes, the health-payment-reform guru who coordinates Prometheus. "The fact that anybody has a leg amputated for diabetes" - something that's preventable with proper treatment - "is revolting, so you make that a financial blemish...
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...Vietnam would lead to a communist Southeast Asia and if such an occurrence would really have posed a grave threat to the West. "It seems beyond understanding, incredible, that we did not force ourselves to confront such issues head-on," he wrote. He said he wanted to help prevent the country from making similar mistakes in the future and that he fretted that just as Washington misperceived Vietnam a generation ago, it remained in danger of making a similar mistake. "We ought to learn the history of the Muslim religion," he told TIME in 1995. "Most Americans don't know...
...Amid fears of an imminent attack, German law-enforcement agencies are jittery and are set to tighten security at the country's airports and borders. Although government officials claim that Germany is well prepared to prevent a terrorist attack, the next few months leading up to the election will be tense times...