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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Well, maybe to give him a backrub before going to sleep." (Hospitals were nicer back then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mystery of the Double Cardiac Arrest | 6/8/2006 | See Source »

...riddle the smart medical resident solved was this: the student nurse had come in to say goodnight to her patient. She then gave him a backrub. And what did she use for the backrub? The cream on the bedside table - Nitropaste. The huge surface area of his back gave the patient a walloping dose. Even the surface area of the nurse's hands was enough to knock her out. Smiles went all around. Though the two weren't awake yet, we all knew that they were safe - a good thing about Nitropaste is you can "turn it off," rapidly stopping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mystery of the Double Cardiac Arrest | 6/8/2006 | See Source »

...civil suit filed by a woman less than half his age with whom he says he had a five-year affair. No criminal charges were filed against Sherwood after his mistress, who is now 29, called 911 and told police Sherwood had tried to choke her during a backrub. But she has sued the four-term Republican from Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania for $5.5 million, saying he repeatedly struck her, violently yanked her hair and tried to strangle her, promising after each incident never to do it again and begging her not to leave him. Sherwood, 64, has denied abusing the woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congressional Scandal Roundup | 8/15/2005 | See Source »

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