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...MONTHS AGO, a woman walked into the hospital with cramps. The doctors thought she had appendicitis and decided to do exploratory surgery. The surgeon, an intern rotating through GYN, thought her appendix looked fine, so I thought we were going to close her up. But then he started to look at her tubes. He said, 'We should take her tubes; they don't look good.' I couldn't see anything wrong with them, so I said that we shouldn't do a tubal ligation until we got a second opinion. But this inter-surgeon kept insisting that her tubes...
...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 that he had removed her appendix. Then, she cried as she learned that her doctor had also without her consent removed her fallopian tubes because he felt she already had enough children. At the time, she was a twenty-one year old mother of three. Unable to bear the male child she says her husband wanted...
...author. The broadcasts were mainly Wodehouse's descriptions of life in an internment camp. Because of their often light-hearted tone, many believed that Wodehouse was attempting to show the Germans in a favorable light. But a careful examination of the transcripts (which Sproat includes in full in the appendix) shows only the gentle sarcasm which pervaded everything Wodehouse ever wrote. There is no evidence that he sympathized with the Nazis in the tape; in fact, much of what was interpreted as praise in the heat of the anti-Wodehouse sentiments was in fact making fun of the Germans...
...stressed that his "rewriting and rewriting" has focused on making the briefing document "more readable and practical," adding that he has moved much statistical analysis to the report's appendix to make sure his discussion of the "pros and cons of various alternatives" is "provocative...
...often during the 14 months of the hostage crisis, an unexpected glitch soon developed. Until Monday afternoon, the Iranian Central Bank had not taken part in the talks. When Ali Reza Nobari, the director of the bank, finally saw the agreement, he rejected an eleven-page appendix relating, among other things, to Iran's right to claim deposits or interest that might surface in the future...