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...curing disease is only part of what makes modern medicine so remarkable--and maybe not the most important part. Triumphing over sickness is a wonderful thing, but it's far better never to get sick at all. And while some scientists have been making headlines with ever more dramatic chemical and surgical interventions, others have been working quietly to prevent disease in the first place...
...system, it's often spent unwisely. According to recent figures, less than 2% of health dollars are allocated to the economically smart business of preventing disease. The rest goes to research and the costly job of treating illness afterward. "There's no better place in the world to get sick," says Satcher. "Our weakness is in preventing disease in the first place...
...moment there's no single national figure teaching the preparedness lesson. In the 1980s, Surgeon General C. Everett Koop helped calm the early hysteria over AIDS, telling the well how to stay that way and reminding them that in the meantime there was no reason to fear the sick. Thompson and Ridge, national doctors without a medical degree between them, have been no match for that kind of performance. Even Satcher has not achieved the same iconic status. During the anthrax attacks, says Dr. Jeffrey Koplan, chief of the CDC, "we found ourselves deploying more and more people just...
...Shiite Muslims, Christians and other Pakistani minorities. As General Musharraf noted in his speech last Saturday, they have come to represent a threat to Pakistan's own internal stability and even its long-term survival. "Violence and terrorism have been going on for years and we are weary and sick of this Kalashnikov culture," Musharraf warned. "Pakistan has become a soft state where law means little, if anything." And he vowed to restore tolerance and the rule...
...think people are sick of cultural analysis,” she says frankly. “I think now we need people to tell stories...