When the hearing starts to go, face the music
Article Abstract:
The rise up the corporate ladder comes with many costs, one of which is the inability of top management to admit to any physical weakness, leading to the adoption of various methods of concealment of the weakness. The example is provided of a committee chairman whose deafness was known to every member of the committee but who refused to admit it, although the lives of everyone involved would have been simplified if he had. In comparison with blindness, deafness is much more difficult to deal with for both the patient and those with whom the patient communicates. Another example is presented of a British actor who owned up to his loss of hearing by wearing a hearing aid, claiming that the benefits of being in contact with the world far outweighed the stigma of wearing a hearing aid.
Publication Name: International Management
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0020-7888
Year: 1985
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Coronary spasm: background to a fashionable new complaint
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Coronary spasms were considered the primary cause of angina in the 1930s. The spasms constricted the coronary arteries and temporarily cut off the heart muscles' supply of oxygen, resulting in the chest pain. This belief was quickly replaced when autopsies of heart attack victims showed the constriction was caused by a thickening of the arteries, or atherosclerosis. An Italian researcher documented spasms occurring in patients suffering anginal pain, which led to new approaches to the diagnoses of heart disease, and the discovery of preventive treatments. It now appears that most anginal pain is caused by a combination of thickening of arteries and spasms, with spasms most prevalent in patients whose pain is occasional and unpredictable.
Publication Name: International Management
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0020-7888
Year: 1984
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The slippery link between fish and a healthy heart
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In the past, Britons relied on sea food for a large part of their diet, but now, despite the fact that the land is surrounded by the sea, the consumption of sea food has decreased, due in part to the decline of the British fishing industry, but now health officials and nutritionists are trying to revive the place of fish in the British diet. In the early 1970s the evidence began to mount showing the benefits of a low-fat diet in the prevention of heart disease, but since that time the it has been learned that it is not simply the consumption of fat but the kind of fat consumed that affects cardiovascular health. The role of diet in general and fat in particular in heart disease is discussed.
Publication Name: International Management
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0020-7888
Year: 1986
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