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...sedate can be a tremendous liberation, says Dr. Porter Storey, executive vice-president of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. It relieves patients of their "fear of dying or not getting adequate help at the end of life," Storey says, before adding, "Good doctors don't intentionally shorten life...
...shut down because they can’t handle it.” To fight the rain, Chipotle staff handed out large Harvard umbrellas to many of the soaked burrito-waiters. Staff also brought around boxes of dozens of burritos and drinks periodically throughout the afternoon, to help shorten lines. The event, which drew approximately 3,000 people, was publicized largely through a Facebook event Catalano created a few weeks ago, as he does for every Chipotle promotion in the area. Chipotle does not do much radio advertising and does no television advertising, meaning that it relies heavily on word...
...treatment will have to prove cost-effective as a pain-reliever. But, in most hospitals, where patients are cycled through intensive care units in a "highly choreographed sequence," there's not a lot of time or imagination to squeeze in massage therapy. Further research, perhaps showing that massage can shorten patients' hospital stays or reduce their analgesics use, may prompt hospitals to include massage more routinely in patient care. In the meantime, patients who want the health industry to think outside the box have to say so: If patients demand massage, Hinshaw says, "hospitals will listen...
...hold off the factional bosses who run the party's federal Caucus. Laborites who think the unions have too much influence in the Caucus may not be consoled by the fact that newly elected M.P.s Greg Combet, former secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, and Bill Shorten, former secretary of the Australian Workers Union, are slated to become ministers...
...Bill Shorten "We are a party of hope and innovation and change." Experience: Australian Workers' Union national secretary Widely touted as a future Labor leader, Shorten shot to national prominence as the public face of efforts to rescue two trapped miners in Tasmania last year. He's young, smart, articulate - and well-connected on both sides of politics: his wife is the daughter of former federal Liberal M.P. Julian Beale. Running for a safe Labor seat, he is destined for a ministry...