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...seconds. Once interrupted, patients are often reluctant to go back to their story. After you answer the doctor's question, say, "Let me just go back and tell you what happened." I also think patients need to be empowered to ask doctors to explain things in language they can understand. The patient is, after all, the owner-operator of his or her body. We wouldn't go to a mechanic who just talked over our heads all the time. Why should we do that with a doctor...
...When you talk to family members when a patient cannot participate in the conversation, it's even more difficult. If it was for themselves, they might say, "Gee, I don't want to go through that," but they are afraid to limit options for family members, and I can understand that. If a proxy knows that the patient always said, "This is how I want to live my life, this is how I want my life to end," they feel very much more comfortable in making those decisions. So I think the fact that there is some national conversation about...
...nearly 300 janitors working at FAS were subcontracted, but failed to indicate how the hours reductions were distributed among the workers. Gingo said that he was not knowledgeable about the "specifics [of the reductions] down to individual employees," but noted that Becker's numbers were "consistent" with his understanding that the changes primarily affected subcontracted workers.Subcontracted janitors have been laid off at various sites throughout the University in recent months, drawing protests from union members, staff, and students. Harvard officials have defended the decisions by pointing to the projected 30 percent drop in the value of the University's endowment...
What are the holy grails for you now in child psychology? What are the pressing questions we're trying to figure out? The real excitement is collaborating with computer scientists and neuroscientists and starting to understand in detail how children learn so much so quickly. Another interesting frontier is understanding how learning fits with children's emotions and moral relationships. Those two things have tended to be separate - there are people who study emotion and there are people who study knowledge. Increasingly, we're realizing that those things go hand in hand for babies. (See TIME's photo-essay "Growing...
...choice. Made up of potentially millions of enrollees, exchanges would be too large for insurers to ignore; in that case they would have to start doing something that's fairly unnatural for them in the current system - compete against one another in a transparent way that consumers could understand...