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...began lecturing health professionals at hospitals near his suburban home outside New York City. "There has to be more time given to patients," he said. "Doctors should have a knowledge of how difficult the tests are for patients. They should understand what it feels like to do a CAT scan and have diarrhea in the middle of the test." Most important: "Let patients do the talking. Learn to listen. Doctors give answers without listening to the questions...
...first casualties this fall was Totman, the team's leading scorer in 1999, who has been out of commission for six weeks now because of stress fractures in both her legs. Though she is still out indefinitely, she will undergo a bone scan on Monday that is two weeks ahead of schedule...
...obligations cited by Metallica's attorneys are placed on the students, not the University; part of character education is to entrust students with the freedom to make wrong decisions, and Harvard has good reason to expect its students to act as responsibly online as on campus. Harvard does not scan network traffic for copied MP3's, but neither does it filter World Wide Web downloads for illegal pornography or conduct random searches of dorm rooms for the underage possession of alcohol...
...skimming so close to the board during her dives that her short hair sometimes brushed the end of the platform before she sliced into the water. She saw her parents once a year. Occasionally they would come to diving meets in her native Hubei province, and Fu would scan the audience from the platform trying to locate them. Usually, she knew they had visited only by the care packages her mother left in the locker room...
...Customs recently began installing airport-surveillance systems that scan travelers for contraband using low-power X-rays, which reveal the shape of a person's navel and other, more private parts. The scans are voluntary, so we asked a few privacy experts if they'd rather be patted down by a guard or ogled onscreen...