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Entertainment
Check It Out
Slow Medicine: The Way to Healing
By Roz Templin, Library Assistant,
El Segundo Public Library
Slow Medicine grabbed my attention immediately
from its introduction. The author,
Victoria Sweet, a medical doctor, describes
Slow Medicine: The Way to Healing by Victoria Sweet.
her helplessness as she recalls her father’s
illness and subsequent journey to the hospital.
Her father suffered a grand mal seizure and
paramedics took him to the local community
hospital, where he was admitted. Instead of the
overnight observation and next-day discharge
that she reassured her family would happen,
she visited him the next day to find him in
restraints, attached to an IV and a catheter.
He was mistakenly being treated for a possible
stroke all because of a small error in his
“electronic health record.” Even as Dr. Sweet
tries to correct the information with her father’s
doctor, it’s not an easy fix. There’s more -- much
more -- about today’s modern medicine and
its applications that will enrage and frighten
you. As she sums up the experience, “If I,
as a physician, couldn’t get appropriate care
for a family member in a lovely community
hospital with well-trained staff, who could?”
This is an interesting book that relates Dr.
Sweet’s early life and eventual decision to
become a doctor. She describes her college
years, her time in medical school plus her
interactions with patients and her jobs in
hospitals, clinics and other medical environments.
The cases she writes about inform and
some astound. Dr. Sweet guides the reader
to her meaning of “fast medicine” -- viewing
and treating the body as a machine with
the doctor being the mechanic; and “slow
medicine – where the pace of care is unhurried
and involves sitting with a patient, a
step-by-step physical and visual examination.
Film Review
Roz Templin.
See Check It Out, page 14
Black Panther Review: A New Kind of
Superhero Roars to the Big Screen
Civil War, in which he witnessed his father’s
passing at his feet. Black Panther sees T’Challa
returning home after the events of Civil War to
his homeland, the African nation of Wakanda,
to succeed the throne as king and rule over
his people as the Black Panther. Holding
court over his inner circle of royals, including
mother Ramonda (Angela Bassett), Wakandan
guards Okoye (Danai Gurira) and W’kabi
(Daniel Kaluuya), sister Shuri (Letitia Wright),
an untested T’Challa finds himself with the
responsibility of governing over his people in
this new position.
T’Challa finds that it’s also up to him to
keep his country flourishing, which it has
See Film Review, page 14
By Ryan Rojas for www.cinemacy.com
Black Panther, the latest standalone
superhero movie from the Marvel cinematic
universe, roared to a record-shattering $218
million US debut over this past Presidents’ Day
weekend, making it the highest debut ever for
a February film and fifth highest opening of all
time. Further positive word-of-mouth reviews
are sure to continue to make this a must-see
movie -- and for good reason: Black Panther is
a vibrant and exciting movie that energizes the
superhero genre and feels vital to these times.
For those who have been keeping up with the
entirety of these Marvel movies, Prince T’Challa
-- aka Black Panther (Chadwick Boseman)
-- was first seen in 2016’s Captain America:
Chadwick Boseman as King T’Challa aka Black Panther in Black Panther. Courtesy of Marvel Studios.