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Columnist Adam R. Gold '11 gives Google a piece of his mind, firmly wagging his finger at the company’s disregard for privacy. Follow the link for the dirt on revelations about secret romances and exposed stalkers...
...from the stereotypical image of Dr. Feelgoods acting with total disregard for their patients' health, Pinsky says, most doctors who get into trouble with celebrity clients mean well but are in over their heads. "It's not as simple as it seems, and it needs to change. If you want to distill it down to one thing, it's doctors really don't understand addiction, and that's how they get themselves into trouble. And then they also don't understand their relationship with celebrity and their own personality figuring into that relationship...
Wakefield's methods were the subject of what was almost certainly the longest medical-misconduct inquiry in British history. The General Medical Council, which licenses British doctors, ruled on Jan. 28 that Wakefield and two of his co-investigators had acted dishonestly and irresponsibly and shown "callous disregard" for the 12 children in the study, which suggested that symptoms of autism in eight of the children and gastrointestinal trouble in all 12 were somehow linked with exposure to the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine...
...This is an international resource that is being eliminated,” Hamburger said in a recent interview. “To see [the chair] eliminated with such disregard is just incredibly short-sighted...
...invasive tests, such as colonoscopies and spinal taps, without due regard for how the children involved might be affected. It also cited Wakefield's method of gathering blood samples - he paid children at his son's birthday party $8 to give blood - and said that Wakefield displayed a "callous disregard for the distress and pain the children might suffer...