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...just words: the first sound on the cut is a wild falsetto field whoop, then a plaintive ?well? exactly an octave lower - as if he were a woman in ecstasy and a man hurting from its lack. His voice rasps like a man whose heart is in his throat, and it?s just been broken...
...continued with a companywide email urging staff members to stop making PowerPoint presentations for one another. "Consider this," he wrote. "Somewhere among the dazzling presentation techniques ... I sense a creeping loss of substance." That struck a chord. "Bravo!!! I am so tired of executives jamming phony presentations down my throat," a U.S. regional manager e-mailed back...
...least that is one of the conclusions of a study published in last week's Journal of the American Medical Association. When doctors at a family-medicine clinic in Calgary, Alta., depended on clinical observation to determine whether or not a patient with a sore throat needed antibiotics, they guessed wrong 40% of the time--making the kind of error that only furthers the spread of drug-resistant diseases. Doctors got the best results if they relied on a microbiologic lab test--either a two-day throat culture or the somewhat less accurate 20-min. rapid test...
...decades, the main reason to treat strep throat was to make sure it didn't turn into rheumatic fever, a serious illness that can damage the heart. The rule of thumb here is to give antibiotics within eight or nine days of the onset of symptoms, which is why you can afford to wait for the results of a throat culture. For reasons that are not clear, the incidence of rheumatic fever has dropped dramatically in most of the U.S. since the 1930s. And studies have shown that many adults get over mild strep infections without taking antibiotics. Children...
...patient if your doctor swabs your sore throat or your child's instead of immediately prescribing antibiotics. That will increase the chances that the drugs will still work when you really need them...