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Part of the problem is that many times, when a doctor is treating a famous individual, the traditional relationship is reversed and boundaries are blurred, with the celebrity dictating what drugs or care they want and using their allure, threat of banishment and lucrative pay as means to get their...
...McEvoy, medical director and chief of pediatrics at Mass General West Medical Group, who has treated and written about the pitfalls of taking on high-profile clients. "One, because they're interesting people. But they're also very narcissistic in general, and needy, and as a result, if you want to be part of their care, often you can find yourself going beyond normal boundaries and going above and beyond what you would do for other patients." She adds, "It's very easy to slip over the line of giving good, objective care and maybe overtreating at times...
...from the stereotypical image of Dr. Feelgoods acting with total disregard for their patients' health, Pinsky says, most doctors who get into trouble with celebrity clients mean well but are in over their heads. "It's not as simple as it seems, and it needs to change. If you want to distill it down to one thing, it's doctors really don't understand addiction, and that's how they get themselves into trouble. And then they also don't understand their relationship with celebrity and their own personality figuring into that relationship...
...four-star kitchen - not to mention the months of training and coaching he'll receive - there's every reason to believe Kent will do better than the U.S.' best ever finish. The question, though, isn't whether we can win; the question is why we would even want to. (See Bocuse d'Or: Americans in a French Food Fight...
...city magazine has a "best of" issue whose every category is hotly debated. The stars the local paper gives out make or break restaurants by telling uncertain diners with limited money to spend where they can blow it with the minimum risk. Chefs like to say that they just want to feed people, or, more wussily still, "make my guests happy." But the truth is that they got into the business because they were creative and driven and wanted to do something special, and usually something more special than their peers. On the other hand, these wildly ornate, ultra-meticulous...