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...healthy. He was, in fact, a friend of my family. His hip surgery had gone very well, but here he was on the second post-op day, going - as we say in hospitals - down the tubes. We know this scenario: maybe unrecognized heart disease or maybe a blood clot to the lungs, but something was starting to kill my patient...
...deal with strong doses of ethyl alcohol, and the spectrum of alcohol-related diseases was nearly as broad as syphillis'. The stumble-bum from New York's Bowery was easy to see. The huge vascular operations we did for hardened livers that backed up the flow of blood, the hip pinnings done for alcohol-related osteoporotic fractures (like Roger's), the psychiatric care for alcohol-induced psychosis, even the male mastectomies for alcohol-induced growth of the male breast - these were all much less obvious. A good doctor, in those days, knew the subtleties of treating drinkers...
...still not clear why diabetes and Alzheimer's should be related. One possibility is that the excess insulin the body churns out to try and control blood sugar inflames the blood vessels - which would also explain how diabetes leads to heart disease. But while it isn't yet exactly certain what's going on, the result is a kind of good news/bad news story. The bad news is that type 2 diabetes has been on a dramatic increase as Americans have gotten more obese over the past couple of decades - which means the Alzheimer's epidemic that's already expected...
...courtesy, New York City. "In Mumbai, they'll step over a person who's fallen in the street," the magazine quoted a Bombayite as saying. But as soon as the bombs went off, Bombayites stooped low to pick up anyone who had fallen in the street, and carried their blood-soaked bodies to hospital in their arms. People rushed out of the slums to pull victims out of blasted trains; they gave complete strangers rides home; and the hospitals had such a crush of people wanting to donate blood that they issued public pleas asking volunteers to stay away...
...trains, "but life goes on. We are all working class in Bombay, and for us the most important thing is work. There are no communal problems on a train." Look at the rescue efforts, says Tandel, or at the long lines of people who waited outside hospitals to donate blood, and it was clear that the attacks had not divided the city. "Everybody came to help the victims, nobody cared if they were Hindu or Muslim," he says. "The terrorists may be trying to create tensions, but it won't work in Bombay, no matter how hard they try." Keep...