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Unfortunately, the psychological element in chronic pain has often led physicians to dismiss their patients' complaints. Says Fields: "Many doctors and nurses believe that if a person responds to a placebo, the pain can't be very bad. This is a terrible mistake." Only about 5% of chronic pain patients are hypochondriacs or hysterics, according to Psychiatrist Anthony Bouckoms of Massachusetts General Hospital. "Pain itself is the reason people suffer; it is not psychopathology," he avers. And yet the most frequent question Bouckoms hears from pain patients is: "Tell me, doctor, is it all in my head...
Hart really does seem more in his element out West; he smiles easily, jokes and jives with his campaign entourage more comfortably. Besides, his reorganized staff has acquired greater discipline and savvy, functioning smoothly despite a missed May paycheck. Mondale's campaign staff, once a model of well-funded Scandinavian efficiency, is fraying. The payroll has been cut by 30% this month. Last week, for the first time this year, Mondale and his aides passed up their expensive charter jet to fly Republic Airlines east from Los Angeles...
...Olympics. I believe that athletics are only a forum which allows diverse, diffuse and struggling nations to surmount their differences and come together. The Olympics symbolize the ability of such nations to overcome political disputes to achieve a common end. To me, politics are just as an important element of the Olympics as are the events...
...architectural muscle flexing that is conventionally meant to prepare its audience for a Major Experience. MOMA's staff, especially its director of painting and sculpture, William Rubin, put a very high priority on preserving this feeling in the new structure. It was, Rubin argues, a key element in the intentions of modernism itself. Relatively few "classical" modernist paintings-Picasso's Guernica being an obvious exception-were carried out with the sense of public declamation that suffuses the great machines of an earlier age. The natural direction of modern art was inward. Barr had no doubt about that...
...abuse-the instinct to kick the tires on a used car-is an ancient and, if Yeats is to be trusted, occasionally charming habit. It can also be painful. Trial by ordeal, the venerable and once widespread practice by which fire or poison or some other divining element is used to determine a person's guilt or innocence, is the kick-to-test instinct applied to living subjects. It used to be a popular method for deciding whether or not someone was a witch, perhaps because what the practice lacked in fairness (the ancient Hindus tied...