Shannon Brownlee
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 Still worried, king asked McKee to be ready to return at a moment's notice.
Just before lunch, a pediatric anesthesiologist from the pain team stopped in. Worried that Josie might suffer withdrawal symptoms without another dose of methadone, the doctor paged Paidas to get his permission to reinstate the drug. He was still in surgery, so the pain doctor consulted with another member of the pediatric surgical team before ordering a lower dose of methadone. At one in the afternoon, a nurse on duty entered Josie's room with a syringe of the drug. |
| A wry, no-nonsense thirty-four-year-old, Sorrel king found comfort in the calm competence of the team of doctors caring for Josie. There was Milissa McKee, a pediatric surgical fellow, who provided much of Josie's day-to-day doctoring, always under the supervision of Charles Paidas, the director of pediatric trauma at the hospital and a world-renowned pediatric trauma surgeon. An entire team of pain specialists, anesthesiologists, and nurses kept Josie comfortable with methadone, a powerful narcotic, and other painkillers. |
Samuel S. Epstein, M.D.
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 Michael Taylor (Tipper Gore's cousin), former legal advisor to FDA and Executive Assistant to FDA Commissioner, to Monsanto's law firm king and Spalding, later back to FDA where he wrote tax laws banning the labeling of rBGH milk (see Chapter 1, LA Times 1994 for role of Taylor during labeling of rBGH milk), now head of king and Spalding's Washington D.C. office.
¦ Clayton K. Yeutter, former USDA Secretary and former U.S. Trade Representative (who led the U.S. team in negotiating the U.S. |
David R. Montgomery
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 A graduate of Cornell University, king had been appointed in 1888 by the University of Wisconsin to be the country's first professor of agricultural physics at the age of forty. Considered the father of soil physics in the United States, king had also studied soil fertility.
King's stay in Washington was short. In his new post, king studied relations between bulk soil composition, the levels of plant nutrients in soil solutions, and crop yields. |
Shannon Brownlee
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| This theory seemed to be confirmed when she perked up after an injection of Narcan, a drug that reverses the effects of narcotics. king told McKee her daughter was thirsty and asked a nurse to bring her something to drink. Josie gulped down a liter of juice, the equivalent of more than four cups.
McKee paged Paidas. After consulting with McKee about Josie's response to the Narcan, he wrote in the girl's chart that she was not to be given any more pain medication unless he was consulted. Then he left for surgery. About an hour later, Josie got another shot of Narcan. |
| A million patients
A string of errors—oversights and a crucial miscommunication—led to Josie King's death in what may seem the least likely place for such a thing to occur. In a prestigious medical center, under the care of rigorously trained specialists and experienced, caring nurses, the toddler became profoundly dehydrated, so dehydrated that a small dose of methadone pushed her over the edge into cardiac arrest. There was no overt or gross negligence, no disregard for a little girl's well-being. |
| When doctors give unnecessary treatment, patients are exposed to all the risks—but not the benefits—of medicine, risks that include hospital-borne infections, the complications and side effects that can come with any treatment, and medical errors like the ones that led to Josie King's death. Hospitals, says Fisher, "can be dangerous places."
Bad doctors
Just how dangerous? Consider some typical medical disasters. A thirty-seven-year-old man was admitted to Allegheny General Hospital, in Pittsburgh, with pancreatitis, an inflammation of his pancreas. |
| Perhaps the most devastating error of all was that nobody paid sufficient attention to Sorrel King's observation that her daughter was desperately thirsty.
THREE Your Local H ospital
To reach Shasta Regional Medical Center, just drive north from San Francisco on Interstate £ for four hours, until you see Mount Shasta, floating over Siskiyou County in its permanent cloak of snow. The hospital sits in the middle of downtown Redding, near a bend in the winding Sacramento River. |
Gregg Braden
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 In the innocence of anticipating the experiences that were yet to come, the group was talking about them as if they had already happened—as if they were already inside of the king's chamber of the Great Pyramid. They were talking about what sounds they'd utter in the acoustically perfect room, how the air would smell, and what it would feel like to be inside the monument that they'd seen in movies and documentaries since they were children.
The key to our mystery is this: In the belief of the group, they were already inside of the Great Pyramid. |
Samuel S. Epstein, M.D.
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| One is the fact that the FDA Deputy Commissioner who wrote the regulations banning the labeling of milk in 1984 was an attorney, Michael Taylor, who previously worked with king and Spaulding, an Atlanta law firm who had Monsanto and the biotech industry as clients. One day he took off his lawyer's hat and moved to FDA, and became Deputy Commissioner of FDA, and then, in blatant conflict of interest, wrote regulations banning the labeling of rBGH milk.
A: Let's try to sum up here. What would you like to see done? |
| Josh king, former President Clinton's Director of White House Production Events, now Director Global Communications in Monsanto's Washington D.C. Office.
¦ Jack Watson, President Carter's Chief of Staff, now Monsanto staff lawyer.
From Congress to Monsanto:
¦ Ellen Boyle, former Congressman Tip O'Neill's Press Secretary, now Monsanto lobbyist.
¦ Dennis Di Concini, former Arizona Democratic Senator, now specializing in patenting genetically engineered food and native seed stocks in his law firm Parry, Romani & Di Concini. |
Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
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 Conventional wisdom is that larger species of fish such as tuna, king mackerel, shark, or swordfish usually pose a greater threat than smaller species, since toxins accumulate in greater levels the higher you go up the food chain. Currently, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advises pregnant women and children to avoid swordfish, shark, king mackerel, and tilefish and to limit consumption of king crab, snow crab, albacore tuna, and tuna steaks to six ounces or less per week.
The U.S. |
Samuel S. Epstein, M.D.
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| Gwendolyn king, former Head of Social Security Administration, now Monsanto Board member.
¦ Terry Medley, former administrator of USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, former chair and vice-chair of USDAs Agriculture Biotechnology Council, former of FDA food advisory committee, now Director of Regulatory and External Affairs of Dupont Corporation's Agriculture Enterprise.
¦ William D. Ruckelshaus, former Administrator EPA, now (and for the past 12 years) Monsanto Board member. |
David Steinman
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 The story that intrigued me and made me want to visit the Barlean family on their home territory in Whatcom County, Washington, was their legendary commercial reef netting operation, which yielded those fish that are richest in omega-3 fatty acids—the Chinook or king salmon. I have to admit I have always loved fishing, and I have fished both commercially and recreationally at one time or another. So I couldn't resist talking Barlean into taking me out reef netting with him.
Think about what everyone wants more of these days: excellent health.
The hottest topic in health today is inflammation. |
Samuel S. Epstein, M.D.
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| March, 1994: Deputy Commissioner Michael Taylor, former legal Counsel to Monsanto's law firm, king & Spalding, and chief Counsel for the International Food Biotechnology Council, issued a strong warning to milk producers and distributors not to label milk from untreated cows as "hormone-free. |
Mark Sircus
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 King D, Mainous A 3rd, Geesey M, Woolson R. Dietary magnesium and C-reactive protein levels. J Am Coll Nutr. 2005 Jun 24(3): 166-71.
3 Is Agrobusiness Making Food Less Nutritious? www.motherearthnews.com/ library/2004_June_July/Is_Agribusiness_Making_Food_Less_Nutritious_
4 See: www.eatwild.com
5 Paul Mason. Violence Prevention through Magnesium-Rich Water. Healthy Water Association, www.mgwater.com/cyalettr.shtml
6 Altura BM, Introduction: importance of Mg in physiology and medicine and the need for ion selective electrodes. Scand J Cliin Lab Invest Suppl, vol. 217, pp. |
Mark Schapiro
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 To the north of the Rond Point is the expanse of royal gardens in the Pare du Centainaire, where the figure of king Leopold I sits on horseback looking straight down the Boulevard Arts et Loi toward the source of European power in the Berlaymont. The king never could have imagined what an international hothouse his beloved Brussels, capital of tiny Belgium, has become. Many of the American players who hit Brussels with hopes of derailing REACH made their new home in Leopold's shadow along these broad avenues. |
Eric R. Braverman
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 In this holistic model every part is important, but the brain is king among kings.
As a doctor who has been focusing on brain research and treatment for more than twenty-five years, I know from firsthand experience that when your body is not working properly, the first place to look is your brain. The brain controls the body's health. Every day millions of people are diagnosed with a host of ailments ranging from headaches to insomnia, depression, obesity, heart disease, and even cancer without taking brain health into consideration. |
Mark Schapiro
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| To the north of the Rond Point is the expanse of royal gardens in the Pare du Centainaire, where the figure of king Leopold I sits on horseback looking straight down the Boulevard Arts et Loi toward the source of European power in the Berlaymont. The king never could have imagined what an international hothouse his beloved Brussels, capital of tiny Belgium, has become. Many of the American players who hit Brussels with hopes of derailing REACH made their new home in Leopold's shadow along these broad avenues. |
David R. Montgomery
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| Considered the father of soil physics in the United States, king had also studied soil fertility.
King's stay in Washington was short. In his new post, king studied relations between bulk soil composition, the levels of plant nutrients in soil solutions, and crop yields. He found that the amount of nutrients in soil solutions differed from amounts suggested by total chemical analysis of soil samples but correlated with crop yields—conclusions at odds with those published by his new boss. |
Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
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 To illustrate, in October 27, 2000, king County in Washington State passed a very unusual ordinance.5 directing psychiatrists to make their patients well and to report annually on how successful those working in the state mental health system had been in achieving this goal. king County spent more than $900 million on mental health the following year in 2001. According to the first mandated report,6 this was spent on treating 7,831 mental patients, mainly schizophrenics and patients with major depression during the year. Of these 6,949 (88. |
David Steinman
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| I started out working in Kodiak dragging for king and Dungeness crab," Barlean told me.
That's where we had our first children, Bruce and Cindy, and that was the kind of town where if you were not an alcoholic you would not do well. I come there after the big wave of 1964, and when they rebuilr ir, they built one food store and one church and one of this and one of that and seven bars. All drinks were a dollar then. Did not matter what you ordered. All were a dollar. |
Jack Challem
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 If you travel in the United States, it often seems as if the only food options are McDonald's, Burger king, Taco Bell, and other fast-food restaurants. Their presence blinds people to other options. These purveyors of bad nutrition lobby Congress and federal agencies to serve their financial interests instead of the health and basic nutritional needs of consumers.
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Three, people have a habit of taking the path of least resistance, which is often the path of greatest convenience. |
| For example, to burn off the 670 calories in a Burger king Original Whopper, you would have to walk for almost three hours, cycle for more than one and one-half hours, or jog for a little more than one hour. Similarly, it would take almost an hour of walking to burn off the 210 calories in a Subway turkey breast sandwich. Most people don't have that much time after each meal, so it's far more effective to combine a lower intake of carbohydrate calories with more physical activity. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Higher-fiber diets are associated with a king's ransom of benefits, including lower risk of heart disease and cancer. And higher-fiber foods, including squash, are frequently recommended for digestive disorders like diverticulosis.
Here's something amazing you can try with squash, especially butternut. Peel it and seed it and then cut it into the shape of French fries. Spray a cookie sheet with nonstick cooking spray, or better yet, lightly coat the tray with olive oil or butter, then place the "fries" on the sheet and bake for about 40 minutes (turn them over halfway). |
Alex Vilenkin
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 Infinite Islands
I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space . . . —Shakespeare, Hamlet
THE FUTURE OF CIVILIZATIONS
The question that started me thinking about eternal inflation again had more to do with science fiction than with physics. It was about the future of intelligent life in the universe. The long-term prospects for any civilization appear to be rather bleak. Even if a civilization avoids natural catastrophes and self-destruction, it will, in the end, run out of energy. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| Spanish mackerel has only a small percentage of red meat and a milder taste than other kinds of mackerel. king mackerel (also called kingfish or cavalla) has a firm texture and distinct taste. Cero mackerel (also called cerro or painted mackerel), caught in waters along the coast of Florida, has leaner flesh and a more delicate flavor than most varieties. Pacific mackerel (also called American, blue, or chub) is an oily fish with a strong flavor. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Burger king website, www.burgerking.com.
Challem, Jack. "Fructose: Maybe Not So Natural . . . and Not So Safe." Nutrition Reporter. http://www.thenutritionreporter.com/fructose_dangers.html.
Center for Science in the Public Interest. "America: Drowning in Sugar—Experts Call for Food Labels to Disclose Added Sugars." Press release, August 3, 1999. http://www.cspinet.org/new/sugar.html.
-. "Consumer Group Petitions FDA to Require 'Diarrhea' Notice on Foods That Contain Sorbitol." Press release, September 27, 1999. http://www.cspinet.org/new/sorbitol_pr.html.
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Alex Vilenkin
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| The king Lives!
Must not all things that can happen have already happened, been done, run past? —Nietzsche
CADAQUES
The first glimpse of an idea came to me in the summer of 2000. As it often happens, my immediate impulse was to share it with someone. You may get more credit if you work alone, but working together is so much more fun! And if you are blessed to have a good collaborator, it can be a real joy. By a stroke of luck, my old friend Jaume Garriga happened to be in town. When I told him about my thought, he understood it instantly.
Jaume is a soft-spoken, quiet fellow. |
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