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...help pay his bookies, Pendergast orchestrated the Northwestern point-shaving scheme. In February 1995 he made contact with Kenneth Dion Lee, 21, a starting guard on the Northwestern men's basketball squad. A three-point specialist who was one of the team's leading scorers, Lee had his own gambling problems. At one point Northwestern had suspended him for it. He had run up big debts...
...Sharon Coatney is the library media specialist at the Oak Hill School in Overland Park, Kans. She is a past president of the American Association of School Librarians (a division of the American Library Association), and has been a librarian in grade schools at all levels...
Barbara Strong, 59, suffered because of such ignorance. Miami doctors refused the former nurse's pleas for medication when horrific cancer pain struck. After Strong rebelled and found a pain specialist, her regular doctor "went wacko...He said I would become addicted." So Strong stayed with the oncologist; eventually her pain got so awful she could barely move. "I wanted to be dead," she says. As a Christian, Strong couldn't go through with actually killing herself, but she did consider an alternative: "Jack Kevorkian, where...
Instead, Strong dumped her doctor and called Dr. Pamela Sutton, the specialist who had helped her before. Soon she was back on the golf course. She could play until recently, when her condition slid. "I wouldn't be alive today if not for Pam Sutton," she says. Strong is fortunate to have sought help. Many don't, for a misguided reason: 82% of respondents in one study agreed with a pollster that "it is easy to become too reliant on pain medication." In fact, fewer than 1% of those treated with opioids become addicted...
...improve how most of us die. First, insurance companies could reimburse more kinds of palliative care, which is cheaper than attempting a cure. "Insurance will routinely cover expensive chemo with a 5% chance of success but may not cover opioids for pain relief," says Foley, the pain specialist. "We are talking about a redistribution of money that we already spend." When Dr. Shaiova was caring for Cummins, she spent an hour with him one day explaining what hospice could do for him. "How do I describe to Medicare how I treated him that day?" she asked. Currently, many palliative-care...