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Well: A Clutter Too Deep for Mere Bins and Shelves
By TARA PARKER-POPE, The New York Times, January 1, 2008
After the holidays, many shoppers load up their carts with storage bins, shelving systems and color-coded containers, all in a resolute quest to get organized for the new year.
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When Hospitals Kept Children From Parents
By HOWARD MARKEL, M.D., The New York Times, January 1, 2008
Early one morning, I visited my daughter’s 5-year-old friend Eddie, who was laid up in the hospital the night after an emergency appendectomy. Understandably, Eddie looked miserable. Just as understandably, so did his parents, who were still in their pajamas in a fold-out cot next to his bed.
At every children’s hospital across the nation, at just about any time of day or night, you are likely to see at least as many parents as patients.
These days, it seems obvious that seriously ill children need their parents beside them during a hospitalization. Yet unlimited parental visiting hours are relatively new in American hospitals. In 1894, Boston Children’s Hospital had only two “visiting days for parents” per week, 11 a.m. to noon on Wednesdays and 3 to 4 p.m. on Sundays (fathers only). At Massachusetts General Hospital in 1910, homesick children who cried too much for their parents were moved to isolation wards so as not to disturb the other patients.
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Killing Dogs in Training of Doctors Is to End
By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, The New York Times, January 1, 2008
By next month, all American medical schools will have abandoned a time-honored method of teaching cardiology: operating on dogs to examine their beating hearts, and disposing of them after the lesson.
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Can They Stay Out of Harm’s Way?
By J. MADELEINE NASH, The New York Times, January 1, 2008
The morning was just starting to heat up when a biologist, Ricardo Costa, set out to look for jaguars on Fazenda San Francisco, a 30,000-acre cattle ranch, rice farm and wildlife reserve in the region of southwest Brazil known as the Pantanal.
Soon, along a fringe of scrubby woodland, Mr. Costa spotted a young male jaguar lazing in sun-flecked shade. “It’s Orelha,” he whispered, pointing out the tear in the animal’s right orelha, or ear.
As Mr. Costa watched from the driver’s seat of a Toyota truck, the animal stretched and yawned, exposing teeth strong enough to crunch through the skull of almost anything. “Wonderful!” he said.
The jaguar, Panthera onca — the largest cat in the Americas and the third largest in the world — still prowls the rangelands of the Pantanal, a 74,000-square-mile mosaic of rivers, forests and seasonally flooded savannas that spill from Brazil into neighboring Bolivia and Paraguay.
From the jaguar’s perspective, this vast, wildlife-rich area probably seems close to a slice of heaven — or, at least it would if the big cats were not routinely hunted down in retaliation for cattle losses.
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By TARA PARKER-POPE, The New York Times, January 1, 2008
After the holidays, many shoppers load up their carts with storage bins, shelving systems and color-coded containers, all in a resolute quest to get organized for the new year.
( Read More )
When Hospitals Kept Children From Parents
By HOWARD MARKEL, M.D., The New York Times, January 1, 2008
Early one morning, I visited my daughter’s 5-year-old friend Eddie, who was laid up in the hospital the night after an emergency appendectomy. Understandably, Eddie looked miserable. Just as understandably, so did his parents, who were still in their pajamas in a fold-out cot next to his bed.
At every children’s hospital across the nation, at just about any time of day or night, you are likely to see at least as many parents as patients.
These days, it seems obvious that seriously ill children need their parents beside them during a hospitalization. Yet unlimited parental visiting hours are relatively new in American hospitals. In 1894, Boston Children’s Hospital had only two “visiting days for parents” per week, 11 a.m. to noon on Wednesdays and 3 to 4 p.m. on Sundays (fathers only). At Massachusetts General Hospital in 1910, homesick children who cried too much for their parents were moved to isolation wards so as not to disturb the other patients.
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Killing Dogs in Training of Doctors Is to End
By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, The New York Times, January 1, 2008
By next month, all American medical schools will have abandoned a time-honored method of teaching cardiology: operating on dogs to examine their beating hearts, and disposing of them after the lesson.
( Read More )
Can They Stay Out of Harm’s Way?
By J. MADELEINE NASH, The New York Times, January 1, 2008
The morning was just starting to heat up when a biologist, Ricardo Costa, set out to look for jaguars on Fazenda San Francisco, a 30,000-acre cattle ranch, rice farm and wildlife reserve in the region of southwest Brazil known as the Pantanal.
Soon, along a fringe of scrubby woodland, Mr. Costa spotted a young male jaguar lazing in sun-flecked shade. “It’s Orelha,” he whispered, pointing out the tear in the animal’s right orelha, or ear.
As Mr. Costa watched from the driver’s seat of a Toyota truck, the animal stretched and yawned, exposing teeth strong enough to crunch through the skull of almost anything. “Wonderful!” he said.
The jaguar, Panthera onca — the largest cat in the Americas and the third largest in the world — still prowls the rangelands of the Pantanal, a 74,000-square-mile mosaic of rivers, forests and seasonally flooded savannas that spill from Brazil into neighboring Bolivia and Paraguay.
From the jaguar’s perspective, this vast, wildlife-rich area probably seems close to a slice of heaven — or, at least it would if the big cats were not routinely hunted down in retaliation for cattle losses.
( Read More )
