Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...River, Minn., claims that the Copper-7 gave her pelvic inflammatory disease, which left her sterile. Internal Searle documents released by court order suggest that the company knew of physicians' safety concerns about the Copper-7 but kept on selling it. In a 1980 memo, a Searle doctor warned company officials that "all studies with which I am familiar conclude that all IUDs enhance the potential...
Anna will be picked up at 2:45 for a doctor's appt. Please have her ready to go in clean sweat suit...
...result has been confusion about the value of mammograms among both doctors and their women patients. Janet Gay Hamby of Thousand Oaks, Calif., was 44 and the mother of two teenagers when she discovered a lump in her breast two years ago. Two mammograms suggested that it was malignant, and when a biopsy confirmed the diagnosis, Hamby underwent surgery and radiation treatments. Because cancer cells had invaded a lymph node, six months of grueling chemotherapy followed. She knows that the chance of a recurrence will remain high for about another year. Says Hamby: "My prognosis is good, but it would...
...differently to the question than medical researchers do. Cost effectiveness is not something that most patients want to hear about, particularly when the money is being spent to prevent cancer. Ultimately, the responsibility for providing accurate information on breast cancer may lie with a woman's physician. And any doctor should be prepared to lay out the facts so that patients can decide for themselves about mammography...
...accompanying interview), is around to provide protection. Gino is in his final year of medical school, paid for by Nicky's garbage salary. Strong, handsome, intelligent-yet-sensitive Gino beats up or otherwise intimidates any hooligans who seem to pose a threat to Nicky. When Gino becomes a doctor, the brothers plan to buy a house by a lake and live happily ever after...