One afternoon last May, Dr. Jennifer Hanrahan, an infectious disease specialist, was asked to examine a man with a severe, mysterious rash on his face, head, hands and legs.
My patients just knew to expect that". One morning, I watched her examine a man who seemed to prefer the accommodations of the hospital to those of his assisted-living facility and habitually took a cab to the emergency room.
In the first hour and a half of her shift, she examined a man with chest pain, a woman with pulmonary hypertension and another patient with a bloodstream infection.
They cross-examine a man's words, when he thinks that he is saying something and is really saying nothing, and easily convict him of inconsistencies in his opinions; these they then collect by the dialectical process, and placing them side by side, show that they contradict one another about the same things, in relation to the same things, and in the same respect.
Pros: Vaughan and Guerra's comic series is so well-loved it's been a target for adaptation for years, and something about a show examining a world without men feels a little timely, doesn't it?
Dr Akram al-Hasani, a Syrian orthopaedic surgeon, is examining a Basra man still suffering from an arm wound after being shot four years ago.
The European Court of Justice, which is based in Luxembourg, is currently examining a Spanish man's claim of a "right to be forgotten" on the Web — something Silicon Valley companies oppose.
Mr. Sherman had objected, saying he could not cross-examine a dead man.
Natti Vogel's new video, "Brown Rice," examines a gay man's struggle with self-image and the escapism of drugs and casual sex.
