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Exhaustion is only one of many roads to a caesarean. In fact, it often seemed to Harrison that all roads led there. If the mother has not delivered within two hours after her cervix has dilated fully, protocol generally calls for a caesarean or forceps-assisted delivery. If highly sensitive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Throwing the Book at Doctors | 6/14/1982 | See Source »

DAWN GORE, a 31-year-old Native American woman from Holyoke, Massachusetts, entered Franklin County Public Hospital in Greenfield in 1969 for an appendectomy. She woke up in the recovery room with her doctor standing at her beside. While still in an anesthetic haze, she listed as her doctor explained...

Author: By Rosalynn E. Jones, | Title: Women Under the Knife: A Look at Sterilization Abuse | 12/17/1981 | See Source »

In putting on a cap, also known as a crown or jacket, the tooth is ground to a stump, then a porcelain or gold jacket prepared in the dental laboratory from a wax impression is carefully cemented on. Capping even one tooth can take three or four sittings. In bonding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Taking Stock of Bonding | 12/14/1981 | See Source »

Such paintings are in the minority, despite the catalogue's efforts m to present everything Gorky touched as though it were a major statement. Curator Waldman's laudable aim has been to present Gorky's career as a continuous unfolding rather than a plagiarizing apprenticeship followed by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Triumph of Achilles the Bitter | 5/11/1981 | See Source »

The exceptionally delicate procedure, performed some 15 to 20 weeks into the pregnancy, is done under a local anesthetic. Doctors scan the woman with pulsed sound waves to locate the fetus, the umbilical cord and the placenta. After making a small incision in the abdomen, they insert into the uterus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Testing Fetuses | 3/24/1980 | See Source »

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