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Having just dumped all my old galleys to make room for a word-processing system, J.D. Reed's report on their possible value [April 26] caused me acute distress ... and provoked thoughts about the electronic future...
...many roads to a caesarean. In fact, it often seemed to Harrison that all roads led there. If the mother has not delivered within two hours after her cervix has dilated fully, protocol generally calls for a caesarean or forceps-assisted delivery. If highly sensitive monitors detect "fetal distress," a section is of ten done. If the mother has received so much local anesthetic that she cannot push, she may be cut. Three out of the first four deliveries at "Doctors" in which Harrison assisted were caesareans, though the hospital records show a 19% rate. Doctors like to do caesareans...
...quack remedies ranging from copper bracelets to snake venom. Aspirin, however, remains the treatment of choice. The trouble is that in order to suppress inflammation as well as pain, aspirin often must be taken in megadoses-15 to 20 tablets a day. At such levels, it can cause stomach distress, ulcers and hemorrhaging. And so, spurred by a market that grows by a million persons a year in the U.S. alone, pharmacologists keep searching for a better drug. Within the past month, two companies claim to have found it: Oraflex (chemical name: benoxaprofen), introduced last week by Eli Lilly...
...relief workers, and countless standers-by who watched with alarm as America's "golden age of individualism" withered under the exigencies of a depressed economy. Her dispatches, collected in this volume, read effortlessly. Loathe to embellish her account of what she saw or heard, her portraits of towns in distress often sing with the openness of a fair appraisal...
...engulfed by a full beard, which he promised his wife he would shave off when he was allowed to resume a normal life. Otherwise, she has been telling friends, he has suffered no ill effects except for occasional insomnia. He keeps busy by reading and, to Danuta's distress, continues to smoke heavily. The lack of activity has given him a bit of a paunch...