Physician's words can undermine patient's recovery

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Physicians have a responsibility to be honest and firm in their prognosis, but they should also offer realistic hopes of recovery. Unfortunately, physicians are sometimes not aware of how important their words are to patients. In an example of the importance in being careful what is said, the author relates an incident involving her best friend, a stroke victim, and how the friend became horrified when the attending physician made the friend think recovery was impossible.

Personal narratives, Stroke patients

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Physicians and the pharmaceutical industry: an allinace with unhealthy aspects

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The relationship between physicians and the US pharmaceutical industry is evaluated. Physicians in the US are expressing concern over the promotional practices of pharmaceutical companies. Increasing competition in the pharmaceutical industry and escalating research costs are forcing medical companies to engage in aggressive marketing and promotional campaigns. Costs incurred by pharmaceutical companies accounts for the high price of drugs in the US.

Pharmaceutical industry

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Mark Rothko's voice: The painter's son reflects on the artist's journey through his own words

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A leader of New York's Abstract Expressionist movement, Mark Rothko drafted a book on modern art, 'The Artist's Reality', in the early 1940s that was overlooked for many years and edited by his son in the past few years. His son suggests that stylistic differences in Rothko's output concealed a common core and editing his father's book brought into focus just how elemental that kinship really is.

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