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...feeling is that instead of focusing on these special visits, we should focus on the services that we think are most important. So instead of saying that we should focus on making sure every 25-year-old woman comes in for a preventive exam, what do we really want to make sure that woman has received? A pap smear, maybe a cholesterol screening - and similarly [come up with guidelines] for other age groups, and really focus on those key services we think are important...
...confusion about preventive health exams versus preventive care in general. Things like mammograms, pap smears, PSA testing, those are considered preventive care procedures - and there's a clear evidence base that these are very important for patients to receive. What we're talking about [in our] study is the special visit for [general] preventive care. Physicians say, "The preventive exam is the only time I can really devote to focusing on preventive care." But we found that 80% of preventive services are provided at other types of visits. The vast majority of patients who come in for a physical exam...
What I find most disappointing about your special report on the Middle East, "A Gulf Apart," [May 26] is the incapacity of contributors like Michael Elliott to conduct a vivisection of what ails the troubled region and suggest solutions that would be restorative and reconciliatory as well as rehabilitative. To have two of the most gifted peoples, namely Arabs and Jews, in a permanent state of unrest benefits only the war merchants. Saber Ahmed Jazbhay, DURBAN...
...disingenuous to assert that the U.S. has no influence over the Hizballah takeover in Lebanon. In fact, these events are the culmination of inept and inconsistent U.S. policies there, and the situation might still be changed if we assessed facts correctly instead of pandering to the illusions of American special-interest groups. Hizballah is powerful because the U.S. cut and ran from Lebanon when it bombed our airport Marine barracks in the '80s. The U.S. must display respect for the leaders of all other countries and parties, friend or foe, and stop calling our enemies names to please the crowds...
...Stone was influential in crafting and updating the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, commonly known as WIC, which provides federal money for nutritional and health care needs for low-income mothers...