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Medicine, Human Rights and the Physician...
...sometimes prescribed to quiet symptoms of agitation and aggressiveness in patients being treated for alcoholism. Alcohol (in Paul's case, equal to eight or nine shots of straight whiskey) combined with the antidepressants would greatly intensify the side effects of drowsiness, impairing reflexes and vision. Paul's physician, Dr. Diane Beaulieu-d'Ivernois, says his last visit was only two days before the accident; she refuses to discuss his medical records or say why he received the prescriptions...
Frederic Mailliez, a French physician who came upon the accident scene by chance, says he found Diana unconscious but "moaning and gesturing in every direction." There was another sound in the tunnel that night: the whirr and click of paparazzi cameras, like little guillotines. Mailliez says that when he arrived, 10 or 15 photographers were already at work. First to arrive were Romuald Rat, 24, of the Gamma agency, and Christian Martinez, 41, of Angeli. Rat insists that he tried to help by opening the car's right rear door and feeling Diana's pulse. "I saw the princess sitting...
...FRANCISCO: Should HIV-infected doctors be allowed to operate on you? The Gay and Lesbian Medical Association says they should. The group, which opens their annual conference here today, is fighting the Centers for Disease Control guideline preventing HIV-infected doctors performing "exposure-prone" procedures. "It has created hysteria ... physicians have lost their jobs simply because they are HIV-positive," GLMA director Ben Schatz told TIME Daily. "The chances of a physician infecting a patient are less likely than a patient infecting the physician...
...medical assistants. Among the recent hires was Pauline Flores, 29, a single mother of five who began work for a Silicon Valley pediatrician in May after seven months of medical training (cost: nearly $6,500). Today Flores earns $8.75 an hour answering phones, drawing blood, doing labwork and assisting physician Katherine Wong. "God, it feels good," Flores says of her job. "I wake up in the morning and want to come to work...