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...movies. Although it has often been used merely for flashy effect, it is the only method of efficiently imparting simultaneously occurring events. And those are done in ways that can, potentially at least, enhance suspense - which always depends on the audience knowing in advance the bad, impending stuff...
...Generics: A good number of patients still ask for "the good stuff" - the actual brand name drug - not the generic forms. By law the pharmacy has to give you the far cheaper generic pill unless the doc writes "DAW" (Dispense As Written) in the little box on the script. It's easy for the doctor to do this - it takes less time and effort to write the three letters than to convince you you're wasting money. I've never seen any significant difference between the generic and branded versions of the drugs I prescribe. Neither have the colleagues...
...Shark Cartilage: The next topic is a very sensitive one: glucosamine-chondroitin pills for arthritis. Patients ask me about these literally everyday. They're not cheap but they are not dangerous and, according to a well-done, recent study with 18,000 people - (half gets the stuff, the other the placebo and neither knows what they got until they report how the pills worked) - they are not effective. They are "natural" though, and many patients love them. The say their pain is "relieved" and they are sure the stuff works because of something about never having seen a shark with...
...they never would. In the medical setting they say "I just wanted the pain to go away - it?s about the pain, not the drug. "In the street setting they say" the drug took control over me - it robbed me of my free will." Remember, it's the same stuff...
...China and Puerto Rico and a gritty 90-86 win over Brazil in exhibition games. The plucky ex-Army point guard from Chicago has mixed in motivational ploys - a speech by a soldier blinded in Iraq moved many players to tears - but won't overdo the rah-rah stuff. "We haven't gone on a canoe trip," quips K when asked how he has united the team. "We'll bond on the court...