News, Ideas and Conversations from the University of Pennsylvania July 3, 2008

Balancing act

Penn Pix: Balancing act

Albert Tsang “slacklines” on College Green. Slacklining is a balance sport in which participants walk across nylon webbing stretched tight between two anchor points.

Photo credit: Ko Im

 

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"Most doctors don't know how to make the diagnosis and don't really try to do anything about it until it is so easy to diagnose that all you have to do is glance at the patient."

—Charles P. O’Brien, professor in the Department of Psychiatry, on a new strategy to make physicians think about alcohol abuse in the same way they think about depression, anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder. (The Washington Post, June 17, 2008)