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...care is eroding satisfaction with the process of medicine, especially among patients with complex and emotionally wrenching diseases such as cancer. The inability to get things done quickly can be "horrendous," he says. Recently he needed three or four weeks of effort--"I'm calling every few days, my receptionist is calling, the family is getting nervous"--just to get a leukemia patient an evaluation at an advanced research center. "That's a big difference now," he says. "Patients five years ago didn't have to jump up and down and scream and say, 'I really want this treatment, please...
...return for a follow-up appointment was impeded by a receptionist who was unable to offer a time for me to see the doctor on any of the days of the following week. She suggested that in the future I should call further in advance--before my injury, perhaps? Once I was able to get an appointment--three weeks later--I was faced with a lengthy wait to see the doctor. He happened also to serve as the emergency room doctor that day, so regularly scheduled patients were just not a priority...
...solitude. In The Hot Dog War a young man who fixates on a beautiful woman he meets on the street cannot help bringing his best friend along on their first and only date. In Nondestructive Testing a former divinity-school student turned office temp is entranced by a comely receptionist until she makes the bold first move of offering him some chocolates...
These doubts only increased in the wake of John Salvi's horrendous killing of Planned Parenthood receptionist Shannon Lowney (which took place at the very same clinic in front of which we prayed this weekend). I came to view the protests as counter-productive and even a bit intrusive. As we walked over to the clinic, passing an intimidating group of angry pro-choicers, I became even more nervous and confused. I leaned over and asked my roommate, a fellow protester, "Do we really have the right to be doing this...
...receptionist at the Califor nia Forestry Association office in Sacramento hadn't had so much trouble opening the shoebox-size package that arrived in the mail last Monday, she would now be dead. She survives only because she carried the box in to her boss, the organization's president, Gilbert Murray, and left it with him. He started to unwrap it-and the package blew up in his hands. The blast, which killed Murray,47, instantly, was powerful enough to knock two doors off their hinges and blow gashes into the ceiling panels. And it was loud enough...