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...When we escalate the drug war, the people we tend to catch are the people who are dumb enough to get caught—no offense to anyone who has been busted,” said Tree, eliciting laughter from the audience of nearly 100 at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum...
Hypochondriacs don't harm just themselves; they clog the whole health-care system. Although they account for only about 6% of the patients who visit doctors every year, they tend to burden their physicians with frequent visits that take up inordinate amounts of time. According to one estimate, hypochondria racks up some $20 billion in wasted medical resources in the U.S. alone. And the problem may be getting worse, thanks to the proliferation of medical information on the Internet. "They go on the Web," says Dr. Arthur Barsky, a psychiatrist at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital...
Most physicians tend to think of hypochondriacs as nuisances--patients they are just as happy to lose. But a few clinicians, like Barsky and Columbia University neuropsychiatrist Dr. Brian Fallon, have begun to take the condition more seriously. "It's not correct to say there's nothing wrong with a hypochondriac," Fallon asserts. "There is something wrong, but it's a disorder of thought, not of the body." And, as he points out, disorders of thought are neither imaginary nor untreatable...
This is a tricky business. The articles explore ways to straighten or subtly change the width of an African-American patient's nose while still allowing for a slight flaring of the nostrils. They explain how Asian eyes, which tend to lift slightly higher in the corner than do Caucasian eyes, often look tired or old beyond their years when that corner drops down with time. These patients want to look younger, but they aren't interested in having their ethnicity erased with a standard eye lift...
Savvy teenagers like Ellen Knapek, 15, a sophomore at Ursuline Academy in Dallas, tend not to buy a ready-made decor from just one vendor. They like to shop around. When her mom remarried in August, Ellen got a new room as part of the deal. "Mom told me I could do whatever I wanted, within reason," says Ellen. Her light-aqua room has a surfboard headboard from PBteen, pastel paper lamps from Pier 1 and a surfer-theme picture frame from Old Navy. Not everything is from a chain store. Ellen found a hula-girl lamp at a Galveston...