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...avoid stigmatizing their patients, Fallon and Barsky avoid the H word altogether. Fallon calls it "heightened illness concern," and Barsky doesn't use any label at all. "The first thing I do," says Barsky, "is acknowledge the patient's symptoms and say we have no good explanation for them." Then he suggests that the patient do some psychological work, which he tells them is often helpful in such situations...
...never gives interviews, so I counted myself very lucky when he granted me an audience in the early 1990s. We met in his office in Cape Town, the great novelist a pale and austere presence in his tweeds and corduroys, and I under strict instructions from his agent to avoid questions about the son who fell from a balcony, the ex-wife who had died of cancer, or the manner in which these tragedies might have influenced his most recent writings. We were to talk only of literature, but my opening question was greeted by dead silence. Coetzee was writing...
Agile and shifty, he darts through opposing defenses, using misdirection to avoid oncoming defenders...
Although Freshman Week safety seminars instruct lone nocturnal walkers how to avoid an attack, nothing was mentioned about how to avoid a serenade...
...always tried to be kind of a quiet leader,” Kingston said. “I’ve tried to avoid the role of the stereotypical kicker...