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...amniocentesis usually cannot be done until the 16th or 17th week of pregnancy, when there is enough amniotic fluid to obtain a sample safely via a needle through the abdomen. Results are not available for another four weeks. Eager to avoid five months of anxious waiting, the two women volunteered for a new, early test of fetal health, under study at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago. Fisher had the procedure in her ninth week "and found out the next day that my baby did not have Tay-Sachs." Roehl also got good news, fast...
...when the militiamen took him to a first-aid station. Przemyk's friends denied the charge. Przemyk died two days later, after undergoing emergency surgery. In an emotional letter to Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Rakowski, Poet Wiktor Woroszylski wrote that "the surgeons who opened up the boy's abdomen had nothing more to do: inside was a bleeding pulp." He added that the doctors emerging from the operating room were weeping. Underground leaders of Solidarity issued a statement calling Przemyk a victim of "paid militia torturers...
...clear as it might be. Shortly after midnight, McMahon goes into the room followed by Stakes, to adjust the strap around the patient's chest. It needs to be moved further down his body because he appears to be breathing less with his chest than with his abdomen...
...emotions or the need for attention. Explains Ford: "They turn psychological issues into body issues." He cites one of his patients as typical: a housewife torn between a desire to work and a desire to be pampered. For two years, she had been complaining of terrible pain in her abdomen whenever she sat down. Her symptom, Ford says, was caused by her conflicting needs: "If she had a pain, she had to be taken care of, but the pain was also punishment for not working...
HOSPITALIZED. George Corley Wallace, 63, elected in 1982 to a fourth term as Alabama Governor despite being in a wheelchair since a 1972 assassination attempt; for pain in his lower abdomen and related depression, which his physician says is also caused by his problems as Governor; in Birmingham. It is his third trip to the hospital since his January inauguration, but a spokesman says that Wallace "is still very much in charge...