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Cottle complained that "Pediatricians often treat parents like children" and whined about not getting enough attention from her baby's doctors. My pediatricians treat me the same way they treat my children: with love, respect and clear boundaries. Cottle wants her doctor available for weekly visits, daily calls and weekend chats. That reminds me of my teenager, who wants that kind of 24/7 availability as well as access to the family car. Someone has to be the grownup...
...still saddened by the events unfolding in various Muslim countries following the undesirable and unnecessary publication of cartoons of the Prophet [Feb. 20]. That mess could have been avoided if there had been sensible restraint and mutual respect. People generally don't take religious insults lightly, but my fellow Muslims overreacted, intensifying the conflict between two similar faiths. Sometimes I wonder whether humans really need religions. Perhaps what we need is a humane education...
Patterson probably outsells Toni Morrison 10 books to 1, but his success comes at a price. He will never get respect from the literati. Most reviewers ignore him. In a culture that values high style over storytelling, pretty prose over popularity and pulse-pounding plots, he's at the extreme wrong end of the spectrum, and he knows it. And, yes, it irks him a little. "That's probably my biggest frustration," he admits. "There's something going on here that's significant, and it's not easy to do. If it was easy to do, a lot of people...
...drug agencies. But Buxton is convinced that the only way to answer the critics is with hard evidence. Her mission, she says, is to help policymakers and the public understand that drug use "is a health and social issue and that persons affected should be treated ethically, with respect and dignity." Her no-nonsense annual report has become a valued source of well-documented evidence and has served as an early-warning system for emerging issues, such as the burgeoning use of crystal meth. "We interpret the data epidemiologically," says Buxton, "and we alert the key players...
...none of that is assured. In the eight months since taking over as U.S. envoy in Baghdad, Khalilzad, 54, has earned the respect of both his Iraqi counterparts and his bosses in Washington for the enthusiasm and savvy he brings to the world's toughest job. "Right place, right guy, at the right time," says a U.S. official involved in Iraq policy. And yet the burden of trying to find a political solution to an increasingly brutal, costly and unpopular war is straining even Khalilzad's relentless optimism. He says he believes Iraq is "heading in the right direction...