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USAT and the WP front a study being published today in the New England Journal of Medicine that seems to show that the race and sex of patients presenting with chest pains determine the course of treatment doctors pursue.
I'm asking myself why I so easily read past all such lefty rhetoric in this bio; I pretty much took it as a given--like the local weather, as you so nicely put it--and at least felt that Cook took no pains to conceal her point of view.
But it seems that the Thernstroms were so preoccupied with criticizing the legal system as overindulgent toward blacks that they passed over entirely this key feature of the 1991 legislation--a feature that sought to correct the very sort of anti-black bias they take pains to underplay throughout their text.
Later on my trip, for example, I met a woman who had no special connections but had been sent here after she developed frightening stomach pains.
Scorsese and Schrader are at their most inspired in the raucous theater of the emergency room, in which patients on stretchers scream at one another to shut up, and an admitting nurse (played by Schrader's wife, the brilliant Mary Beth Hurt) takes pains to let the drunks and addicts and failed suicides know just how much they're imposing on her.