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...consenting to the scan. Ask your doctor what decisions he or she plans to make with the information from the scan. What other tests could yield the same information? Would an MRI be better? Ask why the CT scan is necessary right now. Make a phone call, ask a specialist. Ask how confident the doctor feels about your diagnosis without the scan. If a good surgeon really thought I had appendicitis, I'd go straight to the OR - not to the scanner...
...Erian will become co-CEO and co-chief investment officer at Pacific Investment Management Company, the Los-Angeles-based bond specialist where he had previously served as a managing director and overseen investments in emerging markets. —Staff writer Nathan C. Strauss can be reached at strauss@fas.harvard.edu...
...that Jade was diagnosed with emotional problems when the family moved to Hong Kong, including a "severe form of fear of emotional attachment." Adopted children are sometimes diagnosed with reactive attachment disorder, which manifests as a debilitating inability to form normal emotional bonds. According to Rene Hoksbergen, an adoption specialist at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, even very young children can be affected by the disorder when their needs are disregarded or they are shuffled among caregivers. Poeteray claimed that, despite intensive family therapy, Jade did not seem to improve. "On the advice of known medical specialists, professionals from...
...aware of that measures a guardian's temperament as well as the animal's personality. Many applications ask a potential adopter about their work hours and property or housing facilities. But this is the first that looks at other aspects of a guardian's expectations." Says Nancy Peterson, issues specialist for the U.S. Humane Society: "Personality and behavior are so important. Looks won't keep you in a home if your behavior is a problem. Behavior is the major reason pets lose their homes...
...three panelists—gaming specialist Katie Salen from the Parsons The New School for Design, education researcher Howard Gardner of Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, and new media expert Henry Jenkins of MIT—dispelled some myths surrounding new media...