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...involved with two women: a nurse named Veronika (Francoise Lebrun), who titillates him with stories of her rampant promiscuity, and an older woman, Marie (Bernadette Lafont), with whom Alexandre shares an apartment. Alexandre has a kind of glib charm. He is garrulous, eccentric, at ease with his chronic unemployment, and exhilarated by the way in which he can play off his women against each other. For themselves, the women accept his rules and compete for Alexandre with a sort of sidelong intensity that ends one dismal night in a disputed ménage à trois and an attempted suicide...
Every year of her life, Brenda, 13, had been coming to St. Louis' Cardinal Glennon Memorial Hospital for Children, to have kidney tests. Terrified that new X-ray pictures would show her chronic condition to be getting worse, she lay rigidly on the examining table, her eyes brimming with tears. But she began to smile when Dr. Armand Brodeur, the hospital's chief of radiology, entered the room dressed in a smock covered with pictures of Snoopy and other characters from the Peanuts comic strip. Using the time-honored gestures of the magician to assure her that...
...move proved sound. After ruling out food and person-to-person transmission of the infection, the CDC men learned that all of the patients had received platelets-blood components that help promote clotting-from the same donor. Following up that clue, they found that the man unknowingly had chronic, asymptomatic osteomyelitis, an infection of the bone that was the cause of the cancer patients' new illness. The CDC'S discovery helped the cancer victims and may have saved others as well. The man revealed that he had sold 57 pints of blood during a seven-month period...
...American people, despite insurance schemes, have hanging over their heads the constant cloud of chronic illness and inability to pay. Only those who have experienced its benefits, either for themselves or their families, can appreciate the blessings of the British National Health Service, despite its shortcomings...
...their bodies to the gender with which they identify. The major psychological problem after surgery, according to Dr. Fisk, is that in spite of careful counseling, "expectations are often way out of line with reality." For those who want to keep their operation a secret, there is also the chronic tension that goes along with the fear of discovery and exposure...