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...Fowler did not comment on the matter Thursday. Beck said he was uncertain about details of the Alabaster shooting, but he said the 1968 altercation occurred when Fowler was mourning the death of his brother in Vietnam and there was a disagreement over sick...
...Sarkozy's election, my country's economic and political future looks more promising than at any time that I can remember - at least from the other side of the Atlantic. If he succeeds in putting the economy back on track, France will no longer be seen as "the sick man of Europe," but can instead reemerge as a European and global leader in confronting the challenges of the 21st century. To the French and their Diaspora, Sarkozy has offered nothing less than a France nouvelle. Let's just hope that in the process, he will soften up his tough stance...
...possible they just didn't know. Small things we take for granted can be enormous problems in the absence of a little knowledge. Take cholera. My gastrointestinal colleagues tell me that although it will make you sick and miserable for a couple of weeks, cholera won't kill you if you simply drink enough water and salt to combat the dehydrating effects of its severe diarrhea. But millions have died from it just because they didn't know. Or how many horrible, slow deaths have there been from scurvy, which a bite of green pepper would have cured? How many...
...really understand. Clinical judgment often makes a doctor do things the "objective tests" do not support. Trusting what you see in the patient more than what you find in the chart is a common exercise of medical judgment. You see it used by the doctor starting antibiotics on a sick child with a negative culture, transfusing a patient whose blood count isn't that low (yet) or putting a cast on when it's clear the bone hurts but the X-ray doesn't show a fracture. (The machines might actually trump us on these - an MRI will usually show...
...mother wore me out,” Edwards says, chuckling. “The woman is non-stop, has so much energy, and she would never even know she was sick...