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45 Years (M). Director: Andrew Haigh. Starring: Charlotte Rampling, Tom Courtenay. 95 minutes
'If you take the life lie from an average man, you take away his happiness as well.' So opines Relling, a character in Henrik Ibsen's 1884 play The Wild Duck. The play tests this theory against the experiences of an essentially contented blue-collar family when a well-meaning friend, believing in the liberating power of truth, chooses to reveal a long-concealed secret. The revelation in fact wreaks destruction; tragedy is the punchline of Ibsen's bleak parody of empty idealism.
A new Australian film, The Daughter, shares a direct lineage to The Wild Duck: it is an adaptation by first-time film director Simon Stone of his own Helpmann Award winning stage adaptation of Ibsen's play, which transposed the drama from 19th century Norway to modern, small-town Australia. Heavy in style and tone, it is elevated by gripping performances, notably from Ewen Leslie as the 'average man' husband-and-father who is devastated by the brutal undoing of his 'life-lie'.
The Daughter finds an unexpected counterpart in — and, through comparision, helps to illuminate — 45 Years, British filmmaker Andrew Haigh's adaptation of David Constantine's short story 'In Another Country'. It centres on Kate (Rampling) and Geoff (Courtenay) Mercer, an ageing, childless Norfolk couple on the brink of celebrating their 45th wedding anniversary. As Kate goes about planning a party, news arrives that the body of Katya, Geoff's long-dead first love, has been discovered in a Swiss glacier.
The 'life-lie' here proves to be not a concealment but rather a pragmatic minimisation of truth. Geoff asks Kate if he ever told her about Katya: 'Yes,' says Kate. 'I'm sure I told you about my Katya,' Geoff repeats. The repeated question and possessive pronoun immediately indicate that this news might be more than a minor shock for Geoff. Kate is initially supportive, yet as the days pass and Geoff's plaintive mood intensifies, the true dimensions of his feelings for the departed Katya emerge.
Where The Daughter is heavily emotive, 45 Years is mild in tone, but no less compelling for it. Kate and Geoff live among The Broads of eastern Norfolk, and Lol Crawley's beautifully composed cinematography frames them standing against or moving through that bucolic landscape; just as the landscape is wide-open and ever, subtly changing, so too the faces of the two actors reveal far more than is communicated with words. (The performances are sublime.)
Yet still, in its writing and construction, the film skilfully conceals Geoff from us, as it does from Kate, even when they are in the same room. He is off camera at the precise moment when he receives the news about Katya, just beyond the edge of the frame, which centres on Kate idly rinsing dishes. In the same way it portrays Kate's private moments and hides Geoff's, so that even when they are in open dialogue (and their conversations are indeed open, and intimate), he seems part enigma.
The Daughter, like the play that inspired it, ends in tragedy; 45 Years though hits no such sensational peaks. The disruption of the Mercers' life-lie comes not in the form of shocking revelation, but slow-dawning realisation; not that Geoff isn't the man he purported to be, but that Kate may not be what she believed herself to be, to him. The eventual ramifications of this for their marriage remain unspoken. But as is only fitting, the film's final, wordless moments speak volumes.
Tim Kroenert is assistant editor of Eureka Street.
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NEW YORK – Martha Stewart (search) and her stockbroker concocted a flimsy cover story about why the homemaking icon sold her ImClone Systems (IMCL) stock and left a "trail of evidence" exposing their lies, a federal prosecutor said Monday in closing arguments.
In a methodical three-hour closing argument, prosecutor Michael Schachter told jurors that Stewart and broker Peter Bacanovic believed they would never get caught.
"But Martha Stewart and Peter Bacanovic (search) were wrong," Schachter said. "They left behind a trail of evidence exposing the truth about Martha Stewart's sale and exposing the lies they would tell."
Stewart and Bacanovic face nine federal counts related to the sale of about $225,000 worth of stock on Dec. 27, 2001, the day before the stock tanked on news that the government declined to review an ImClone cancer drug.
Prosecutors say Bacanovic sent word to Stewart that ImClone CEO Sam Waksal (search) and his family were frantically dumping their own shares.
On Monday, Schachter tried to dismantle the centerpiece of the pair's defense -- that they had struck a deal before Dec. 27 to sell Stewart's shares when ImClone stock dropped below $60. The prosecutor called the story "phony," "silly" and "simply an after-the-fact cover story."
Baconovic's lawyer fired back by attacking the credibility of the government's star witness and comparing the government's case with a house of cards.
"When you push on it, when you look at it closely, it collapses," Richard Strassberg said. "Because it has no substance. It has no foundation."
Stewart took notes during the arguments and, as she has done throughout the trial, maintained a grim poker face. Her lead attorney was to make his case Tuesday, with the jury to begin deliberating as early as Wednesday.
The prosecutor listed seven reasons jurors would know the $60 agreement is a lie. Among them: The pair have no record of having made the plan, other than a worksheet produced by Bacanovic with the notation "[at] 60" next to ImClone stock -- in a different ink from other marks on the page.
Schachter also listed inconsistencies -- mistakes, he called them -- in the stories Stewart and Bacanovic told federal investigators looking into the ImClone trade in early 2002.
For example, Bacanovic claimed they had the $60 conversation on Dec. 20, 2001. But Stewart placed it in late October or early November.
And Schachter said that Stewart's attempt to change the log of a message Bacanovic left her was evidence of a guilty conscience. Stewart quickly ordered her assistant to restore the message to its original wording, according to the assistant's testimony.
"This event is devastating evidence that she committed the crimes that she's charged with," he said.
Last week, U.S. District Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum dismissed the top count of securities fraud, which accused Stewart of misleading investors in her own company when she claimed publicly that she sold ImClone because of the $60 deal. The judge said the government had failed to provide enough evidence of criminal intent by Stewart.
The dismissal left jurors to grapple with one central question -- whether Stewart and the broker lied to the government about the stock sale.
The remaining counts against Stewart carry up to 20 years in prison, although federal sentencing guidelines could mean a sentence of just a year or so if she is convicted on all counts.
The charges against Bacanovic carry 25 years, but the guidelines would similarly reduce his sentence.
Strassberg spent more than two hours attacking the credibility of Douglas Faneuil, the former Merrill Lynch & Co. assistant who said he passed the tip about the Waksals from Bacanovic to Stewart. Faneuil and the government have a cooperation agreement -- clear motive for him to "shade the truth," Strassberg said.
Strassberg insisted Faneuil was starstruck by Stewart, and suggested it was he who came up with the idea to tell Stewart about the Waksal selling.
"He lies by just twisting a few little facts, a few key facts," Strassberg said. "But those facts are crucial."
Strassberg also stressed Bacanovic's reputation as a trustworthy, meticulous broker and said Bacanovic never would have risked his career for the Stewart trade, which earned him just $450 in commissions.
The broker taking such a risk "makes no sense," Strassberg said.
Actor Brian Dennehy (search) showed up in court Monday to support Stewart, the latest in a string of pro-Stewart celebrities in attendance. Bill Cosby (search) was in court last week, and Rosie O'Donnell (search) appeared early in the trial, jokingly offering a prosecutor a bag of peanut M&M's as a bribe to drop the case.


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This delicious soup is quick and easy to fix. Just add bread for a hearty meal!
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Now this is a tasty tasty treat! It is simple to make, and full of flavor. We used rotel for the diced tomatoes, and served it with grilled ham and cheese sandwiches. Very filling! I must say that I really enjoyed scraping the built up cheese off of the spoon, it was like a little added bonus! We will certainly make this soup again, it was really very good :)
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- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 1 green pepper, chopped
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano
- 2 teaspoons dried basil
- 1⁄2 cup uncooked rice
- 1 cup diced or crushed tomatoes
- 4 cups chicken broth
- 1 -2 ounce thinly sliced pepperoni
- 1⁄2 cup shredded provolone cheese or 1⁄2 cup mozzarella cheese
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Actions speak louder than words for Greg Inglis.
But the Queensland star admits he will need to improve his on-field chat to succeed as Maroons fullback in July 8's State of Origin decider in Brisbane.
The softly spoken Inglis has made a habit of doing his talking on the field, sort of.
The barnstorming Maroons centre usually makes a statement with ball in hand but Inglis concedes he must work on his communication to step up in injured No.1 Billy Slater's absence.
Inglis, 28, has had plenty of practice juggling the South Sydney captaincy and No.1 jersey in the NRL.
However, the 25-Origin game veteran admitted a challenge lay ahead in his first stint as Queensland fullback since game three, 2012.
"Talk is vital (from the back to maintain Queensland's structures) and that is something Billy does extremely well," Inglis said of the fullback role.
"It is something I have been learning over the last few years and I am getting there – I just have to continually do it.
"It just comes with confidence and being confident with the boys around you and to boss them around the field and tell them to get in the right position.
"(But) Origin in any position is a big step up.
"You can get found out very quickly."
The threat Inglis poses at fullback has already set tongues wagging after bouncing back to his best in Queensland's 26-18 game two loss in Melbourne.
All but silenced by tonsillitis in game one, Inglis found his voice again in Origin II as he amassed 128m, seven tackle busts and a record 16th career try.
It marked his first Origin four-pointer since game two, 2013.
He was rotated with winger Darius Boyd in game two in order to provide him more ball.
But he is not expected to be far from the action at fullback in a backline reshuffled due to Slater's season-ending shoulder injury.
Apart from Inglis, Will Chambers is at centre and debutant Dane Gagai is on the wing for game three.
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"I don't know about vintage best but it was just great to find form.
"(But) I have to go back and find that form again."
Queensland teammate Matt Scott couldn't wait.
"We're going to miss Billy and what he brings to the game but Gregs skills bring a different kind of excitement," he said.
Inglis has vowed to improve his on-field chat but don't expect any trash talk.
His teammates are also set to take a vow of silence despite reportedly more sledging from the NSW camp.
"We sit back and go about our business – that's just the way it is," Inglis said.


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An important feature of patient-centered care is physician understanding of their patients' health beliefs and values.
Determine physicians' awareness of patients' health beliefs as well as communication, relationship, and demographic factors associated with better physician understanding of patients' illness perspectives.
Cross-sectional, observational study.
A convenience sample of 207 patients and 29 primary care physicians from 10 outpatient clinics.
After their consultation, patients and physicians independently completed the CONNECT instrument, a measure that assesses beliefs about the degree to which the patient's condition has a biological cause, is the patient's fault, is one the patient can control, has meaning for the patient, can be treated with natural remedies, and patient preferences for a partnership with the physician. Physicians completed the measure again on how they thought the patient responded. Active patient participation (frequency of questions, concerns, acts of assertiveness) was coded from audio-recordings of the consultations. Physicians' answers for how they thought the patient responded to the health belief measure were compared to their patients' actual responses. Degree of physician understanding of patients' health beliefs was computed as the absolute difference between patients' health beliefs and physicians' perception of patients' health beliefs.
Physicians' perceptions of their patients' health beliefs differed significantly (P<0.001) from patients' actual beliefs. Physicians also thought patients' beliefs were more aligned with their own. Physicians had a better understanding of the degree to which patients believed their health conditions had personal meaning (p=0.001), would benefit from natural remedies (p=0.049), were conditions the patient could control (p=0.001), and wanted a partnership with the doctor (p=0.014) when patients more often asked questions, expressed concerns, and stated their opinions. Physicians were poorer judges of patients' beliefs when patients were African-American (desire for partnership) (p=0.013), Hispanic (meaning) (p=0.075), or of a different race (sense of control) (p=0.024).
Physicians were not good judges of patient's health beliefs, but had a substantially better understanding when patients more actively participated in the consultation. Strategies for increasing physicians' awareness of patients' health beliefs include preconsultation assessment of patients' beliefs, implementing culturally appropriate patient activation programs, and greater use of partnership-building to encourage active patient participation.
Physician understanding of their patients' health beliefs, values, and preferences is a fundamental feature of patient-centered care.1,2 Such an understanding is important for several reasons. First, a key, empirically supported tenet of health behavior theories is that a patient's beliefs about health (e.g., cause of disease, controllability of a condition, value of different remedies) predict health behaviors such as medication adherence, utilization of health care services, and lifestyle decisions.3–5 A better awareness of a patient's health beliefs could help physicians identify gaps between their own and the patient's understanding of his or her health situation6 and lead to treatments decisions better suited to the patient's expectations and needs.7 Second, physicians' skill at hearing and understanding patients' perspectives is also a key component of empathy,8,9 the expression of which contributes to perceptions of higher quality care and more effective communication.10,11 Finally, some research has shown that patient satisfaction, commitment to treatment, and perceived outcomes of care are higher when physician and patient achieve a shared understanding on issues such as the patient's role in decision-making, the meaning of diagnostic information, and the treatment plan.12–16
Current evidence indicates that physicians often have a poor understanding of their patients' perspectives with respect to patients' preferences for involvement in decision-making,17 desire for information,18 perceived health status,19 interest in life-sustaining treatments,20 beliefs about treatment effectiveness and prognosis,21 level of health literacy,22 and emotional states.23,24 Because perceptions of patients can influence physicians' communication and decision-making25,26 and because physicians often have limited awareness of their patients' perspectives, research is needed to explicate factors that contribute to better physician understanding of what patients believe and value.
To address this gap in the literature, we first examined the degree of concordance between physicians' perceptions of their patients' health beliefs and patients' own reports of those beliefs using the recently developed and validated CONNECT instrument.27 This measure assesses various domains of a clinician's or patient's beliefs about the cause, nature, meaning, and management of the patient's health condition as well as the patient's preference for a partnership with the doctor.
We also predicted that physicians' understanding of patients' health beliefs would be related to several factors. First, we expect physicians will have a better understanding of their patient's health beliefs when patients more actively participate in their consultations. Patients who ask questions, express their worries, and state preferences and opinions are interjecting their views into the consultation, thus providing physicians explicit information on their beliefs, needs, and concerns.28,29 Second, from a relationship development perspective, we expect physicians who have seen a patient on more occasions will have better knowledge of that patient's beliefs than of a patient with whom doctor has had few or no previous visits. While this proposition has not been studied in medical encounters, there is some evidence that longer relational histories are associated with patients' willingness to talk about psychosocial concerns, particularly those of a sensitive nature.30 Finally, cultural differences between physicians and patients may affect how well physicians understand their patients.31 Although little research has addressed this issue, some evidence is suggestive. Several studies have found that patients reported more positive consultations when the physician was of the same race or ethnicity.32–34 In some settings, Caucasian physicians have reported less favorable impressions and poorer communication with African-American patients,26,35 which in turn can contribute to misperception and lower trust.26,36,37
Physicians and patients were recruited from ten primary care clinics in the Houston, Texas area. These included public (Department of Veterans Affairs and county based) and private practice clinics. In September 2002, flyers were sent to local physicians inviting them to one of several luncheons to discuss a research project on physician-patient communication. Physicians were invited to participate either at the luncheon or by phone if the physician expressed an interest in participating but could not attend the luncheon. A total of 29 physicians (all at the attending level or in practice) agreed to participate. Thirteen were affiliated with the VA, 9 practiced at public, community-based clinics, and 7 were from private practice, all of whom saw patients by appointment. For each of these doctors, one patient per half-day clinic was recruited by project personnel who approached potential participants as they arrived for their visits. Patients were eligible to participate if they spoke English and were over 18 years of age. The targeted number of patients recruited per physician was seven to ten, which would produce a sample size sufficient for regression analyses given an expected ten predictor variables. The patient recruitment period was from October 2002 through August 2003. The study received IRB approval from the Baylor College of Medicine and the VA review boards. Informed consent was obtained for all patients and physicians.
Prior to the consultation, patients completed a questionnaire that asked for demographic information, the primary reason for their visit, and how many times they had previously seen this doctor. The patient then had his or her consultation, which was audio-recorded. After the visit, patients completed the CONNECT instrument, which assessed their beliefs about the primary health issue for that visit. After the visit, the physician completed two versions of the CONNECT instrument, one assessing his or her own beliefs about the patient's health condition and the other what he or she thought the patient's health beliefs were.
The 19-item CONNECT instrument27 assesses 6 domains of an individual's perceptions about a particular health condition—the degree to which (1) the patient's health condition has a biological cause (cause-bio), (2) the patient is responsible for the condition (fault), (3) the patient can control the condition (control), (4) the condition can be treated by non-biomedical ('natural' or integrative) treatments (natural), (5) the condition has significant meaning for the patient (meaning), and (6) the patient prefers a partnership with the physician in managing the condition (partnership). The CONNECT instrument is theoretically grounded in Kleinman's38 seminal work on patients' 'explanatory models' and Leventhal's39 research on physician and patient 'illness representations.' The CONNECT instrument is scored by summing the respondent's responses on 6-point Likert scales to the items comprising a particular CONNECT domain (e.g., control, meaning, etc.) and then standardizing scores to a 100-point scale.
Active patient participation consisted of three types of patient communication—asking questions, acts of assertiveness (offering opinions, stating beliefs and preferences, making a request), and expressing concerns (worries, fears, negative feelings). These behaviors are considered 'active' because they explicitly place the patient's perspective into the conversation and they can influence the physician's behavior, perceptions, and treatment decisions.26,37,40,41 Two undergraduate students, who were blind to the purpose of the study, were trained to code the interactions using the Active Patient Participation Coding scheme, a previously validated observational method of coding the three above elements of patient communication.29 Coders first listened to audio-recordings and, when hearing a behavior of interest, placed the behavior into the appropriate category of active participation. An overall active participation score was computed by summing the total number of questions, acts of assertiveness, and concerns expressed per patient per interaction. Reliability was established by having both coders code a subset of 15 consultations independently of one another. Reliability (intraclass correlation) for the active patient participation composite index was 0.83. The remaining consultations were divided between the two coders who coded them independently.
To determine how well physicians understood patients' health beliefs, t-tests were used to determine if patients' actual beliefs differed significantly from physicians' perceptions of patients' beliefs for each CONNECT domain. We also examined whether physicians tended to think patients' beliefs were comparable to their own beliefs about the patient's health condition by examining the relationship between the physician's own responses to the CONNECT instrument and the physician's perceptions of the patient's beliefs.
To examine whether communication, relationship, and demographic variables were related to the degree of physician understanding of patients' health beliefs, the absolute difference between the patient's score on a particular domain and the physician's score for how he or she thought the patient responded on that domain served as dependent measures in linear, multivariable regression models that included the following as a priori predictors: the patient's race (African-American, Hispanic, Caucasian), age, gender, and education (high school or less vs. some college or more); the physician's race (African-American, Asian, Caucasian), gender, and age; racial concordance, gender concordance, how many previous visits the patient had with the doctor; and the number of active patient participation behaviors during the interaction. All analyses controlled for patients nested within physicians.
At the close of the enrollment period, 269 patients agreed to participate and have their consultations audio-recorded; however, audiotape data from 55 patients were missing or incomplete due to equipment malfunction or recording errors. In addition, 7 patients had incomplete data on self-report measures, leaving the final sample at 207. Patient and physician characteristics are presented in Table 1. The patient and physician samples were diverse with respect to age, gender, and ethnicity. Fifty-eight percent of the physician-patient pairs were gender concordant, and 32% were race concordant.
Across all health domains, there were significant differences between patients' health beliefs and physicians' perceptions of patients' health beliefs (Table 2). However, on four of six domains, physicians generally thought patients' beliefs were similar to their own. Moreover, in the two domains where physicians thought the patient's health beliefs differed from their own, their perceptions were in the opposite direction of the patient's belief (Table 2). For example, compared to their own views, physicians thought that patients believed there was more a biological cause to their health condition and believed they had less control over the condition. In actuality, patients believed there was less of a biological cause and that they were more in control than what physicians believed. With the exception of the extent to which the patient's condition was due to a biological cause, physicians underestimated patients' beliefs about being at fault, the meaning of the disease, the value of natural treatments, having control, and wanting a partnership with the doctor (Table 2).
While we found no significant predictors of physician understanding of the 'cause biological' and 'patient at fault' domains of patients' health beliefs, several variables did predict better understanding across the other domains. Those that were statistically significant or approached significance are reported in Table 3. By far the most consistent predictor of physician understanding was active patient participation. The more patients asked questions, expressed concerns, and stated preferences and opinions, the closer the match between the patient's self-reported beliefs and the physician's understanding of the patient's beliefs with respect to the meaning of the condition, the patient's ability to control the condition, the value of natural remedies, and the patient's desire for a partnership with the doctor.
The patient's race or physician-patient racial concordance was related to understanding in three of the domains (Table 3). Specifically, compared to their understanding of Caucasian patients' beliefs, physicians had poorer understanding of African-American patients' preferences for a partnership and, marginally (p < 0.08), of the meaning of the condition for Hispanic patients. Physicians had a better understanding of patients' beliefs about control over the condition when the physician and patient were of the same race. Although male physicians' perceptions of patients' preferences for a partnership and sense of control over the condition were more consistent with patients' beliefs than were the perceptions of female physicians, it is difficult to draw conclusions given the small sample of physicians (n=29). Physicians had a poorer understanding of college educated patients' sense of control and partnership preferences than they did of patients with high school educations or less. The number of previous visits the patient had with the doctor was not related to physician understanding of patients' health beliefs.
Physicians with a more accurate understanding of their patients' health beliefs should be better positioned to reconcile differences between their own and their patient's illness perceptions and propose treatments more suited to the patient's unique needs and personal circumstances.1,42 While some studies have examined differences between physicians' and patients' perspectives on health and health care,12,19,20,43,44 very few studies have examined how well physicians understand their patients' health beliefs and what factors contribute to a better understanding. Using the CONNECT instrument,27 which assesses six domains of patients' and physicians' illness representations, this study investigated patient, physician, relationship, and communication factors that predicted how well physicians understood their patients' health beliefs. Several findings are noteworthy and have important implications for clinical practice and future research.
First, physicians had a relatively poor understanding of their patients' health beliefs. Specifically, physicians generally underestimated the degree to which patients perceived meaning in their conditions, believed they were at fault, saw value in natural remedies, had a sense of control over the condition, and preferred being a partner in their care. In addition, on four of the six domains (fault, meaning, value of natural remedies, and desire for a partnership), physicians thought the patients' beliefs were not significantly different from their own beliefs, thus assuming a shared understanding when in fact this was not the case. These findings are consistent with other studies indicating that physicians perceive the quality of their interactions with patients differently than do patients,23,45–47 tend to underestimate patients' desire for information18 and shared decision-making,48 and misjudge patients' literacy levels.22,49 Our study makes an important contribution to this body of work by now demonstrating similar patterns of misunderstanding about not just the outcome of the medical encounter, but also about the nature of the health condition being addressed. Shared understanding between physician and patient is not only a critically important foundation for informed decision-making,50 it is arguably a pathway for optimizing patient trust, adherence, and disease outcomes.1,51
While much of the literature describing the importance of developing a shared understanding situates such activities in the context of either cross-cultural encounters52 or health problems of extraordinary significance (such as end of life decision making),20 our findings suggest that physicians may misperceive how their patients understand relatively common medical issues, such as blood pressure control. Our findings point to the need for physicians and patients to develop a shared understanding in these routine everyday encounters prior to decision making, as widely espoused in the chronic care model of illness management.53
A second important finding in this study is that physicians had a better understanding of patients' health beliefs following those encounters in which patients more frequently asked questions, expressed concerns, and stated preferences and opinions. While other studies have linked patient involvement to a number of post-consultation outcomes,54–58 our findings demonstrate that active patient participation also helps physicians become more aware of their patients' health beliefs. Such understanding forms the foundation for formulating therapeutic plans that patients are more likely to follow, since such plans take into account the patient's perspective on how the illness works and what therapies are feasible, given their unique circumstances.38
Third, our study suggests that the patient's ethnicity also may be related to how well physicians understand their patients. Compared to the beliefs of Caucasian patients, physicians had a poorer understanding of African-American patients' preferences for a partnership and the meaning of the condition to Hispanic patients. Doctors also had a poorer understanding of patients' sense of control over health when the patient was of a different race. Other studies have shown that, even when taking into account racial differences in patient participation (minority status patients are often less participatory26,37,59,60), minority patients experience less trust61,62, and are sometimes perceived by clinicians more negatively.26,35,63 Taken as a whole, these results suggest that understanding the patient's perspective is more complex when physicians and patients come from different cultural and ethnic backgrounds, and they underscore the need for skills training in narrative medicine, history building, and other forms of cultural competence.64–66
To what extent physician understanding of patients' health beliefs improves decision-making and the quality of care patients receive is an important area for future research as well as identifying the most efficient, effective means to provide information on patient's health beliefs to clinicians. For example, would physicians get a better of understanding of their patients' health beliefs if this information was gathered as a preconsultation assessment, was part of the medical history, or through longer visits that might allow patients more opportunities to be active participants?67 Evidence to date also demonstrates that more active patient participation in the consultation can be increased with patient activation interventions that can be efficiently deployed prior to a patient's visit using various methods (e.g., coaching,56,68 printed material,69,70 interactive computer programs,71,72 and video73,74).
Our results also have implications for professional development and medical education. Given the current primary care environment and its inherent time pressures, physicians do not have the luxury to pursue lengthy discussions of patients' views about multiple aspects of their medical histories. However, patients' histories often contain important pieces of contextual information that can lead to important insights about their perspectives,75 and patients often reveal this information in the form of subtle verbal and nonverbal cues,76 which physicians often miss.77,78 In ongoing work, we have been developing educational interventions to help physicians follow patients' cues and efficiently understand the significance and meaning of this information.79 The protocols used in this study to measure understanding may be useful when evaluating such educational interventions.
This study has several limitations. First we did not examine whether the accuracy of physician understanding was related to post-consultation outcomes. This is an important goal for future research. Second, we cannot draw strict conclusions regarding causation because we did not get pre-consultation assessments of physicians' understanding of their patients' models. Third, while relatively balanced with respect to gender concordance, the study sample was not balanced with respect to racial concordance in that all Hispanic patients and all Asian physicians were in non-concordant interactions. Fourth, physicians in this study represented different types of practices (e.g., VA vs. hospital clinics) and experience levels, yet a sample of only 29 physicians was too small to determine whether these and other unidentified physician factors were related to their understanding of patients' health beliefs. Finally, although our analysis included several patient variables, others (e.g., health status) were not and may have contributed to unmeasured effects on physician understanding.
In conclusion, an important feature of patient-centered care is physician understanding of their patients' health beliefs and values. In one of the first investigations of its kind, this study quantified such understanding, revealed gaps in physician awareness of their patients' health beliefs and found that physicians understood patients better when patients were more participatory. Less understanding was to some degree also associated with patients' ethnicity. Future research should further explicate factors that contribute to better physician understanding of their patients and test interventions that target these processes.
This research was supported by P01HS10876 from the EXCEED (Excellence Centers to Eliminate Ethnic and Racial Disparities) initiative of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the National Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities, and Houston Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence (HFP90-020) at the Michael DeBakey VA Medical Center.
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Talk to a sailor at any port city in Pokemon: Fire Red. He will be easy to spot because he will be next to a boat. You must have the Aurora Ticket in your inventory.
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Examine the triangle again. Walk directly to it with as few steps as possible. You need to get to it quickly or the puzzle will reset. Deoxys will eventually appear once you beat the puzzle.
Examine Deoxys to start a battle. He will be level 30, so this should not be a difficult fight.
Damage Deoxys until his health is low. Try to get it around or below 10%. Be careful not to accidentally kill him.
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- The Aurora Ticket was a promotional item distributed at some Pokemon events hosted by Nintendo. It is an old promotional item that is unlikely to be redistributed. It is possible to get the Aurora Ticket using an Action Replay cartridge to cheat, but this can be a risky tactic (you could crash your game or corrupt your save data).
- There is only one chance to encounter Deoxys on Birth Island in Pokemon: Fire Red. You will never be able to catch him if you accidentally kill him.
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Gasoline Demand Soars
EIA expects U.S. retail gasoline prices to rise 15 or 16 cents.
NEW YORK -- U.S. drivers are burning up gasoline at a rapid pace, cutting down supplies during a time of year that they normally grow as travelers choose the highway over the runway, energy analysts said yesterday.
Gasoline consumption over the past four weeks has averaged 8.374 million barrels per day (bpd), 2.5 percent above the same period last year, while jet fuel demand has averaged 9 percent below last year, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.
The strong gasoline demand, bolstered by the increasing popularity of gas-guzzling Sport Utility Vehicles (SUVs), mostly mild winter weather and lower pump prices, has helped boost petroleum prices, hit by the economic recession and low home heating oil use.
"Gasoline demand has been a very strong element," said John Cogan, downstream analyst for the Energy Information Administration (EIA), which expects U.S. gasoline demand in 2002 to average 2.4 percent higher than last year, even as demand for other products declines.
Supply reports released by the EIA and American Petroleum Institute (API) for last week each showed large declines in U.S. gasoline stockpiles, with the EIA report showing a decline of 1.1 million barrels during the week ended Feb. 22
The decline in supply is abnormal for this time of the year, when gasoline stocks are normally built up for the spring and summer, when vacationers take more road trips. The EIA said it expects U.S. retail gasoline prices to rise 15 or 16 cents by late spring and average roughly $1.25 a gallon through summer driving season, as the strong demand melds with stronger crude oil prices and a switch-over by refiners to costlier summer-grade gasoline formulas.


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by Robt. Allred
(Oceanside, Calif.)
I have used nitrogen in my RV, truck and car tires for several months now due to an ad at a tire shop saying that I would save 10% plus in milage. This I have found to be absolutely true. I went from 6 to 7 miles per gallon towing a 24 foot trailer to 13 miles per gallon. Towed with a Toyota V-8 Tundra 2004.
You might want to pass this on to your many subscribers as Discount tires says this has not been proven and they do not have the option. I would appreciate your comments on this great savings what with gas as pricey as it is.
RK Allred
Oceanside California
ANSWER: Hi RK thanks for submitting this on our Ask An RV Question Page.
Compressed air that you get at a service station contains around 78% Nitrogen, 21% Oxygen and 1% other substances such as argon, carbon dioxide, neon, methane, helium, etc. Compressed air can also contain quite a bit of moisture depending on how well maintained the air compressor is that you are using.
Oxygen and moisture have a greater reaction to heat and cold, so when you are going down the road your tire pressure will tend to fluctuate more. Oxygen molecules are relatively small and tend to permeate through the rubber of the tire, so even if your tires are properly maintained you are still losing air from them.
The oxygen, moisture and other substances in compressed air can oxidize the rubber on the inside of the tire plus promote rust forming on the inside of the wheels which can create leaks as well as prematurely aging the tire compound.
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When there is a way of creating cash, it's shares and bonds. There are people who are trading their particular wages on various securities. Daily, thousands and scores of securities can be purchased and purchased all over the world.
So, who's a speculator or a trader in stock market marketplace? Really, a speculator purchases and offers different sorts of securities because of the ultimate purpose of making an instant capital gain as a result of price variations into the currency markets. However, an investor purchases the securities because of the ultimate purpose of producing regular earnings from the holding of securities. Their ultimate purpose is plus safety financial investment.
People generally hold shares and bonds for an extended time of the time. They earn dividends and interest as a reward.
Four Kinds Of Investors
1.) Bull
A bull is a speculator whom anticipates a growth in rates. She purchases securities in the present price because of the goal of offering all of them at another date when rates increase. She purchases long and creates pressure on the rates in order that they increase. If her speculations get wrong, she spreads hearsay that prices are probably increase (she does bull campaigns also called rigging the market.) A stock marketplace dominated by bull speculators is termed as bullish marketplace.
2.) Bear
A bear speculator anticipates a fall-in rates. She goes into into an agreement to offer securities in the present price because of the goal of purchasing all of them at another date when their particular rates fall. This woman is a pessimist. If rates fall depending on her speculations, she purchases all of them right back.
This might be termed as offering brief. Unlike a bull speculator whom keeps her head upward, a bear speculator keeps her head down. She makes efforts of bringing rates down into the stock market marketplace through offering force termed as bear raid. When her speculations get wrong, a bear squeeze takes place. In the event that bear speculators take over the market, it's termed as bearish.
3.) Lame Duck
A lame duck is a hopeless bear speculator. This woman is desperate because she had committed herself in an understanding to offer securities to a purchaser in addition to shares are unavailable into the currency markets. The client just isn't happy to postpone the deal.
4.) A Slag
A slag speculator relates for securities because of the aim that rates of shares will be listed at a premium price in the stock market marketplace. She eventually offers the securities when rates increase. She creates false needs by delivering some applications under different names. A slag speculator is a premium hunter.


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Adam LaRoche's fantasy value drops in Boston
Adam LaRoche's owners in NL-only and deep mixed leagues are feeling a little sting right now (well, as much sting as you can feel when a player is hitting .247) because they now have a player who has gone from having an everyday job to a part-time one.
The Red Sox acquired LaRoche to give them the depth they've lacked at the corner-infield slots, freeing Kevin Youkilis to slide over to third base and give Mike Lowell and his surgically repaired hip a little more rest in the second half. Although Red Sox manager Terry Francona uses his bench a bit, LaRoche will sit more than start, as Youkilis and Lowell remain the primary names in the lineup.
Francona told the team's Web site that Lowell generally will not play more than three or four games in a row, so LaRoche will sub for him from time to time. AL-only owners hoarding their free-agent acquisition budget money for an impact player will need to wait a little longer, because LaRoche won't earn enough playing time to be that guy despite his power potential, unless Lowell's hip takes a turn for the worse or injury strikes Youkilis or David Ortiz.
The Pirates were looking to get out from under the balance of LaRoche's $7.05 million salary for the season and were not expected to make a run at re-signing him. They received two minor leaguers in return who are not worth fantasy consideration. Argenis Diaz is a 22-year-old, 5-foot-11, 155-pound defense-first shortstop with no pop and very little speed who may not even hit for much batting average. Hunter Strickland is a 6-5 right-handed pitcher who has shuttled between starting and the bullpen. He lacks an out pitch and is having problems putting batters away even in Class A ball.
However, the deal means that the red-hot-hitting Lastings Milledge finally should earn a promotion back to the big leagues, where he'll battle Brandon Moss and Delwyn Young for playing time in left field. Garrett Jones will slide over to first base. Milledge likely already is reserved in NL-only leagues, but he would become a deep mixed-league consideration (thanks to his speed) if it looked as though he were a lock to start five or six times per week.


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Brasov Days – annual event correlated with the Junii feast
The Junii Feast – is a unique event, which takes place on the first Sunday after Easter. Junii, the inhabitants of the old Schei district of Brasov, dress up in their traditional costumes, mount their horses and form a procession that passes through the old city streets, up to the so-called "Intre chetri" (Between the Rocks), where their ritual starts. There is dancing, barbecuing and much more. The costumes the Junii wear are very picturesque.
Summer organ concerts at the Black Church – organ concerts at the Black Church during the summer
Musica Barcensis Festival – sacred music concerts in all summer weekends in the historical fortified churches from Rasnov, Prejmer, Harman, and Ghimbav, cities surrounding Brasov.
Musica Coronensis – the festival takes place every year in October and promotes the Brasov musical and cultural values. The festival was initiated in 1993 by the Evangelical Church Brasov.
The Jazz and Blues Festival – an international festival hosted by Sica Alexandrescu Theatre, in autumn
The International Chamber Music Festival – held in September, organized by the Philharmonic Orchestra of Brasov
The Contemporary Drama Festival – annual event organized by Sica Alexandrescu Theatre in November; with the participation of famous theatres from Romania, as well as from countries like France, Italy, USA, Belgium, Sweden, Brazil etc.
EtNovember – a cross between the words "ethnic" and "November", the name of Brasov's Etnovember festival reflects both the cultural traditions of the participating communities, and the month in which the festival is held.
The International Book and Music Fair -hosted by Transylvania University of Brasov, in March – an opportunity to find out about the latest books and also listen to quality music
The National Lied Festival – was initiated in 2003 by the internationally famous soprano, Mariana Nicolesco. Young artists compete here and well-known artists perform recitals.
The International Opera Festival – an annual event organised since 2003. The first edition marked the 50-year anniversary of the Brasov Opera.


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