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…we often hide our heads in the sand, plug our ears, and carry on with our lives as if all is okay on planet Earth. When doctors have to engage in slicing into human flesh to perform surgery, they turn off their compassion for humanity, treating the body as a mechanical device, at...

…epresented several clients who fit this situation. One such case was a highly publicized prosecution of three prominent doctors and a nurse at one of Boston’s leading hospitals. One of the doctors had a party at his house for some of the hospital staff. During the party, the nur...

… fending off the humanizing emotions of compassion and empathy. This is adaptive. This is a transformation that enables doctors working in war-torn areas or regions afflicted with a disease outbreak, to treat hundreds of suffering patients as if they were treating inert cars on a...

…elves from the pain of another’s pain. We self-deceive in the service of boosting self-confidence and self-esteem. When doctors turn their patients into machines that require repair, they have deployed an adaptive mechanism that keeps empathy at bay when it is unnecessary. Good d...

doctors expressed a preference for Praluent. One advantage of Regeneron’s drug is that doctors

…s than many Wall Street analysts expected following a meeting convened by the FDA to analyze the data on the drug. Some doctors argued its use should be restricted mainly to patients with FH. But Mark Schoenebaum, Evercore ISI's pharmaceutical analyst, says that investors were in...

…ition, I brought my own jar of wheat germ, because I was afraid that poison would be put in my food. On October 29, the doctors placed a clamp on a vein in my pelvis in order to prevent the blood clot from moving to my lungs where it could have killed me. It was then that I went...

…s than many Wall Street analysts expected following a meeting convened by the FDA to analyze the data on the drug. Some doctors argued its use should be restricted mainly to patients with FH. But Mark Schoenebaum, Evercore ISI's pharmaceutical analyst, says that investors were in...

…cion was some kind of contamination linked to the rudimentary sanitation in the Sinai. When the symptoms persisted, the doctors suggested I probably had hepatitis B. Years later, better diagnostic tools ruled all that out. I’ve never discovered what the 161 illness was. But for n...

…me returned later, rather sheepishly.) Other favorites have to do with menstruation. It turns out that back in the day, doctors — who were of course always male -- simply refused to accept the existence of PMS. Apparently, it was accepted among doctors that a woman who felt cramp...

…in jolly spirits. I learned later what was wrong. George thought he had a weight problem, although I never noticed one. Doctors prescribed amphetamines in those days to control appetite. They revved him up and made it hard to sleep at night. So the same doctors prescribed barbitu...

… he led a multidisciplinary team of researchers dedicated to the development and use of proteomic technologies to guide doctors in making health-care decisions tailored to individual needs. The center grew out of earlier clinical projects at Cedars-Sinai, where Agus served as an...

…at do I really want? Anything that gets people away from the conveyor belts that move from the pharmaceutical houses to doctors and on to patients is worth considering. Anything. We need to stop pretending it’s all about molecu- lar biology. Serious illnesses are affected by aest...

162 Teaching Minds chemistry that doctors need to know, they study the chemistry re- search that their professors are doing. When they want to learn busi- ness, they learn economics. When they want to learn how to write, they learn about literature. All of this happens because o...

… who knows that he is in a study also may expect a better thera- peutic result than one who doesn’t. Ifyou believe that doctors are particularly atten- tive, you can get better more rapidly, even if they aren't. This is known as the Haw- thorne effect. (There is also a “nocebo ef...