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Through understated diction and humor, Eighner creates a narrative that is both instructive and engaging. His experiences and observations remain uniquely his own, yet provide relevant commentary on one of the country's most urgent concerns. The personal perspective breaks down's looming social issue into the problems of individuals...
-- The New England Journal of Medicine reported that the children of Cincinnati suffered an epidemic of pertussis (whooping cough) last year. There were 352 cases (none fatal), compared with 542 cases in the 13 years from 1979 to 1992. The alarming part was that most of the children had been...
Patients receiving the wrong drugs--often because the physicians' written orders can't be read correctly -- account for almost 20 percent of cases in which healthcare givers aggravate rather than ameliorate medical conditions. The statistic comes from the Monday meeting of the American Medical Association. The group's Rx for...
But then I stop and ask myself more questions. Maybe being a liberal at Harvard isn't all it's cracked up to be. Would I be able to handle the boredom of being "just another Harvard liberal?" Or the anonymity associated with being just a statistic, one out of...
Is this the language of one who wishes to engage in rational argument? He goes on to suggest that the Take Back the Night Rally does "more harm than good--just as many of the country's sex education programs have resulted not in lower but in higher rates of...