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Thomas J. Gill ’85, a team physician for the New England Patriots, Boston Bruins, and Boston Red Sox, and a surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital, offered his words of wisdom to a group of undergraduates, many of whom aspire to forge medical careers of their...
...denied reality, has a nasty habit of rearing its head. As we have all been told by the Associated Press and other mainstream media, the mayhem that swept through neglected and impoverished neighborhoods with large African and Arab communities has been building for decades. Although this is accepted wisdom now, had one suggested the possibility of such an enormous outburst of violence a month ago, he would have been labeled a fool, a Cassandra, or, more likely, a racist. The truly frightening thing about the current situation in France is that a fringe figure like Jean-Marie Le Pen sounds...
...scandal-for a week's swing through Asia, he could at least be assured of a warm welcome at his first stop. In Kyoto, Bush was to meet Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. Bush loves Koizumi, and the feeling is mutual. More to the point, it has become conventional wisdom on both sides of the Pacific to assert that the U.S.-Japan alliance is now closer and stronger than it has ever been-an assessment strengthened by the rapid-fire conclusion of a number of military pacts between the two nations in the last month. But no amount of hugs...
...with SSRIs is that they are too widely - and casually - prescribed. When the first antidepressant, imipramine (Tofranil), was developed just over 50 years ago, maker Ciba-Geigy balked at taking it to market for fear there weren't enough depressed people in the world to make it profitable. The wisdom of the time was that endogenous depression affected, at the most, about 1 in 1,000 people at some time in their lives. Things have changed. Groups such as beyondblue now promote the idea that about 1 in 5 people will become depressed during their lifetime...
...Nolan ’80’s campaign advisers told her not to count on success. “Almost no one wins the first time,” Ethel Klein, who now works as a pollster in New York, told the rookie challenger. But defying conventional wisdom, Nolan came out above all other candidates, as she and 28-year-old Cambridge teacher Luc D. Schuster unseated incumbents in an election process that rarely favors the underdog...