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[The emphasis today is on relatively low-tech screens for signs of incipient chronic disease -- adult-onset diabetes, hypertension and heart disease, cancer and the like. To help doctors track these indicators, the preventive services task force revises its guidelines continuously. Recently, for example, the task force recommended that doctors screen patients for depression. The screen is simple, almost a casual conversation --] How's work? Are you feeling stressed? Are you sleeping? ... Many people who are depressed don't go to a psychiatrist looking for insight. Most are seen in primary-care situations.
- Carolyn Clancy
[Joan has my sympathy, but she's not entirely correct. Those mothers are not indifferent to their responsibilities. Most are hyper-conscious of them. The problem is that we are no longer sure what they are.] Modern parents want a warm and loving relationship with their children, and to be a source of encouragement, comfort and support... We want to be friends without children, not remote or frightening authority figures as our own parents may have been.
- Linda Blair
[Even the Chicago Police are impressed with the result.] We think it's great... It's very innovative, taking data that we're already publishing on our crime site, which has been up since late 2000. By repackaging that information, presenting it in a highly interactive way with hyperlinks all over the place, it is easy to explore and to drill up and down in the data. It does some creative things with mapping.
- Jonathan Lewin
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