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Without corroborating evidence, Loftus says, an accurate memory cannot be distinguished from an imagined one. But therapists often feel that it is not their job to judge their patients' credibility. That's a mistake, says Dr. Paul McHugh, a psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins Medical School. "By not making an attempt to find additional confirmation for what the patient is telling you, you are ultimately saying that you believe the patient simply because the patient's feelings are so intense," he says. And yet, he adds, "feelings can mislead...
...asked whether they endorse the Clinton plan. In the TIME/CNN poll, 61% say the government should guarantee health care for all Americans. Support for universal coverage has remained fairly consistent, even as interest groups opposed to the Clinton plan have spent millions of dollars campaigning against it. Says Lorrie McHugh, a White House spokeswoman on health care: "People don't realize it's the Clinton plan they like...
...firm guarantees for universal coverage sharply criticized the compromise. "We view the plan as gimmickry at its worst. It sells consumers down the river," said Bob Carolla, legislative counsel for Consumers Union. Reaction by the White House to the rump group's plan was muted. "Encouraging," said Lorrie McHugh, the White House's health-care spokeswoman. Earlier in the week, Hillary Rodham Clinton delivered a fiery call to arms to supporters of the Administration's plan, urging them to stand firm. "No other reform in our health-care system will work if we do not achieve guaranteed universal coverage...
Mark Levy drew a walk from the New Hampshire hurler Pete McHugh, giving the Crimson runners on first and second with no outs, but Brissette was picked off. End of big inning...
Recovered-memory therapists might do well to heed those guidelines before they cause irreparable damage to their profession. For, as the public begins to recognize that people have been falsely accused by recovered-memory patients, says psychiatrist McHugh, it "opens us up to skepticism and dismay about our capacity to do things. This is a bubble that is going to burst. We will end up having to re-create the trust this country puts in psychotherapy...