Word: rejectionism
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Scott's is the first hand transplant of its type in the U.S. and one of only eight worldwide. (Reattaching a patient's own severed hand is far more common.) So far, his transplant team, led by Dr. Warren Breidenbach, at the University of Louisville School of Medicine, and Dr...
Being given a new hand is not for everybody. Doctors took great pains to match Scott's new hand with his other one. Both are male and similar in color and size. Still, carrying around an extremity that isn't one's own can be psychologically unsettling, even more so...
Getting a feel for Guinness was harder. "I'm afraid I was a little abrupt recently with a producer who sent me a screenplay," he once confessed. "It was rubbish, really. I sent it back with a polite rejection. Then he came back with the plea that 'we tailored it...
Psychologists seem of two minds about the real-life effects such rejection can have on the human psyche. On the one hand, the deafening if fleeting humiliation can magnify insecurities a contestant might have about him or herself, and the return to normal life as an unpopular non-millionaire could...
This story doesn't end at the bottom of the Long Island ice teas we downed to calm our nerves after the race. The battle was won, but the war against traditional privilege isn't over in Britain--not for me, not for Tony Blair and not for New Labor...