Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...quickly decided to consider the ice cream question at home and began to walk briskly down the avenue. Suddenly, Anjali stumbled. She gripped her foot and cried out in pain. A few minutes later we were all sitting in the E.R., waiting for a doctor in the understaffed facility to attend to our friend...
...bureaucracy. While most Americans with health insurance say they're satisfied with their coverage, 35% of those surveyed in a TIME/CNN poll complained about the growing hassle involved with their coverage, and a wide majority expressed support for such reform proposals as the right to choose one's own doctor (79%) and the right to appeal HMO decisions to a neutral third party...
...philosophical question: Would you trade the ability to make certain facial expressions in order to look years younger or at least "well rested"? Maggie, a 52-year-old who wants to be identified only by her first name, would say yes. And so she is sitting in a Manhattan doctor's office having her forehead injected with a dozen or so shots of botulinum toxin A, or Botox, as it is known commercially. The toxin paralyzes local facial muscles and thus eliminates wrinkles caused by muscle contractions--in this case the worry lines in Maggie's forehead...
...Stamford, Conn., couldn't sleep. Aspirin worked for a while, but then she developed stabbing pains in her stomach. She switched to naproxen, which, like aspirin, is a so-called nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug, or NSAID. Same story. "I took myself off naproxen and went to my doctor in tears," she recalls. He put her on a new experimental drug, and this time, no arthritis pain--and no stomach pain. Says Zebroski: "It's made all the difference in the world...
Whatever you do, don't ignore the acid rising from your stomach. Over-the-counter remedies are fine for occasional upsets. But if you develop heartburn on a regular basis, say twice a week, or if it's keeping you from sleeping at night, then get yourself to a doctor. The problem could be much worse than you realize...