There are examples of how patient stories affect the meso-level managers, and all clinical personnel express a preoccupation with providing high-quality care and serving patients' needs.
Rutherford was Baptist with a strong faith and expressed a "deep preoccupation with propriety and morality" in her textbooks, criticizing "authors who openly portrayed sexuality or themselves lived in ways Rutherford found immoral".
But among patients seeking to change their noses for cosmetic reasons, 43 percent showed signs of the disorder, expressing an unreasonable preoccupation and distress about their bodies despite having noses that were relatively normal.
The trigger-warning debate may, by comparison, seem esoteric; but both it and #YesAllWomen express a larger cultural preoccupation with achieving safety, and a fear of living in its absence.
He went on to criticize an "almost idolatrous preoccupation with the secular order," expressing a view not very popular among Harvard's worldly faculty.
Of these, "The Blackwater Lightship" -- a finalist for the Booker Prize that was made into a film for television earlier this year -- is the best known, although "The Heather Blazing" (1992), whose protagonist is an emotionally remote Irish judge, has best expressed Toibin's preoccupation with the theme of tragic lack of self-awareness -- at least until now.
For the creator of "My Martha Stewart Page," even the "extremely anal" quality of Martha's expressed preoccupation with the appearance of her liquid-detergent dispenser can be a learning experience, a source of concern that becomes a source of illumination: "It makes me worry about her.... Of course it is just this strangeness that makes me love her.
Chu also expressed other preoccupations about immigration as it relates to Asian-Americans.
