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...major new health threats don't usually announce themselves with press releases. A quarter of a century ago, the world learned about the AIDS epidemic because a health bureaucrat noticed an uptick in prescriptions for treatment of a rare pneumonia. In 1912--more than a half-century before the Surgeon General's report--a New York physician chronicled "a decided increase" in lung cancer, which was considered rare at the time, and suggested that cigarettes might be the cause...
...Ethical Tool A burglar's Leatherman in a surgeon's pocket raises many complicated questions
...intern you want experience and responsibility - you are trying to become a surgeon, so you want to do what's hard. At the code you hope to intubate, or to put in the huge IVs we use in the big veins of the neck or chest. If the chief wasn't there yet we were the ones who had to start giving directions to the nurses and medical people who filled the room. A smart intern in this situation always watched the face of the oldest nurse and changed course when it told...
...from washing the car for an hour to gardening for 45 min. to raking leaves to taking a leisurely stroll around the block. And it didn't even have to be all in one shot. Three short walks, for example, could substitute for one longer one. Since then, the Surgeon General, the National Institutes of Health and the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports have all come out with similar guidelines...
...Birch and a Staghorn Sumac,” he says. “And I found myself in introductory chemistry with 150 wonks from around the country who had already taken the class.”Cuse realized medicine was not for him when, his uncle—a surgeon at the time—invited Cuse to accompany him to an operation.“I did, and I promptly fainted,” he says. “My chemistry grade and my experience with my uncle were signposts that this was not the right career...