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...spoke of "redirecting" the economic embargo imposed by the Organization of American States, to relieve pressure on ordinary Haitians and target the assets of individuals connected with the coup. Yet in the four months since the trade ban was imposed Bush has taken no steps to implement such a "scalpel embargo," giving coup sympathizers time to clear their assets out of the U.S. An official acknowledged that the Administration had bowed to domestic business interests after complaints that the embargo had shut down U.S.-operated assembly plants in Haiti, putting 40,000 locals out of work and costing U.S. jobs...
...statement. Many media people said, "You are so naive." I really had not anticipated the reaction to the editorial I wrote. I have been amazed. It is like an abscess that has been festering for years. It's been getting bigger and bigger. What I did was throw a scalpel at it and opened it. Now there is pus running all over the floor. What I have done, I hope, is help others open up a dialogue about this. If we can get men and women to start talking to one another about what gender insensitivity means, then we will...
...years ago, lumpectomy would not have been an option for Fallscheer. Since then, studies have shown that when a tumor is small, confined to a single area and readily accessible to the surgeon's scalpel, lump removal plus radiation is no less effective than removing the entire breast. But as Fallscheer's experience shows, not every surgeon is convinced. Nor does every eligible patient choose the lesser operation. Though about 50% of breast- cancer patients are candidates for lumpectomy, only about half of those elect it. Many, including Nancy Reagan, feel safer if the entire breast is removed. "For most...
...fact, there is a much greater chance of a medical worker's being infected by a patient than the reverse. So far, 40 such cases have been documented. Doctors and nurses routinely suffer needle sticks and scalpel nicks that expose them to patients' blood. If the new guidelines force health professionals to be tested for AIDS infection, it would seem only fair to test patients as well, a move that has been rejected by the general medical community as too intrusive and costly...
Patient care would suffer too if infected workers are driven from practice. And what is a hospital to do every time an uninfected nurse or doctor suffers a scalpel cut? It can take six months or more for the AIDS virus to show up in tests. "Do they sit out those months?" asks Mark Barnes, policy director of the AIDS Institute, a branch of New York State's department of health. "In large urban settings you could have half the surgical staff waiting...