Word: doctor
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...WORST Peepee Poopoo! Movies have been regressing for ages, but this year they went totally infantile. How many potty jokes can you stuff into a shrill "kids'" film like Doctor Dolittle or Rugrats? Enough to make toddlers giggle, parents groan and critics fret about the millennial devolution of cinema...
Every time I hear the name Ritalin I do a slow burn. My parents put me on the drug when I was eight. It was pretty much the doctor saying, "He's hyperactive," my parents agreeing and the doctor whipping out the prescription pad. For the next six years, my parents told me I was taking a vitamin supplement. I'm still paying for what this garbage did to my system--and I'm 38. I've seen true, medically hyperactive kids. I wasn't one of them. What kind of society is it in which so many...
...doctor had told me that there was another cyst, but it was only small and that it wasn't going to bother me if I went out and played, so I didn't think of it," she says. "The night before the ambulance came, the thought flashed through my mind that it might be [the cyst]. But I thought, 'It's so small, what's it going to do?' I didn't really have that thought until I went into the emergency room and they started asking me questions about my history...
...less a legend than Fort Sumpter or Rainbow Row, though she arrived in Charleston in 1940, a humble immigrant from Hannover, Germany. Trained as a physical therapist, she established a private practice and worked at clinics and hospitals. In 1957 at the city's Roper Hospital, a doctor on rounds couldn't communicate with a critically ill Dutch sailor and enlisted her as a translator. The sailor didn't understand Freudenberg's German any better than he did the doctor's English. Alarmed by the incident, Freudenberg went on local radio and television and appealed for help. A Dutchman working...
...Some doctors believe everyone should be tested for hemochromatosis. But that could be a problem, since the tests aren't foolproof. At the very least, anyone with a family member who has hemochromatosis should get tested. In addition, if you have arthritis, diabetes or cardiac arrhythmia, your doctor should make sure that the difficulty isn't actually a result of iron overload...