Word: breasts
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...plaintiff may expect his claim to be upheld if he avers that his right to make his own decisions, based on the nature of his disease, was thwarted by the doctor's concealment." Earlier this year, after a Kansas woman suffered burns from radioactive cobalt therapy for her breast cancer, her physician was judged negligent-even though the treatment was skillfully performed-simply because he failed to tell her there was a risk of radiation burn, and therefore, said the court, had not obtained her "informed consent" to the treatment...
Kennedy was wrapping up two-thirds of the early vote in Philadelphia and Chicago-more, it seemed, than he appeared to need to breast the expected rural Republican tides...
...five boroughs, the nation's heaviest concentration of population, in 1956 cast 3,200,000 votes-against 3,900,000 for the rest of the state. Thus the key figure is this: a Democrat must usually capture a 700,000-vote majority in the city to breast the upstate Republican tide. (Adlai Stevenson carried the city by a humiliatingly...
...because of the fine double-play combination of Second Baseman Bill Mazeroski and Shortstop Dick Groat, who claims that his broken left wrist has mended. In the outfield, the Yankees' weak link is Leftfielder Hector Lopez, who not only has a poor arm but stirs prayer in the breast of Manager Casey Stengel every time he wanders after a fly ball. Behind the plate, both the Yankees' Yogi Berra and Elston Howard have arms strong enough to discourage any base-stealing ambitions of the generally fleeter Pirates...
...cancer." This complaint has often echoed through U.S. civil courts, and sympathetic judges or juries have granted hefty cash damages for claims of cancer contracted after an injury, usually suffered on the job. But can a single blow actually cause cancer, even in the sensitive, cancer-prone female breast? Probably not, says Dr. Lionel S. Auster of New York's Bronx Hospital. Speaking at last week's second International Meeting on Forensic Pathology and Medicine at the New York University Medical Center, Dr. Auster said: "Experimentally, a single trauma has never been able to initiate a malignant tumor...