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...professionals, with a penchant for whisky and a preference for quoting Martin Amis over the Koran. Oscillating between Baghdad and London in the years 1998 and 2005, the play skillfully dramatizes the tug between two locations and two states of mind in the central character of Salim, a bisexual doctor who has just penned a controversial novel entitled Masturbating Angels, partially in rebellion against his Iraqi heritage. Though initially in favor of the invasion, Salim returns to Iraq with his friends for a wedding to find the country slowly descending into chaos, virtually unrecognizable from the childhood memories of peaceful...
...young girl, Liz Jones knew there was something wrong with her legs. Every evening, she would experience a "creepy, crawly" sensation that persisted throughout the night. Her legs would jerk involuntarily, making it impossible to fall asleep. She was six when her mother first took her to a doctor for help. That doctor chalked it up to growing pains. Another doctor assumed she had a psychological condition and prescribed antidepressants, which made her symptoms worse. Another advised her to "read a book at night," a suggestion that was both dismissive and ineffective...
...gynecology that has one treatment," says Dr. William Parker, chair of the obstetrics and gynecology department at Saint John's Hospital and Health Center in Santa Monica, Calif., and author of A Gynecologist's Second Opinion. "If you're only getting one option, it's likely that your doctor doesn't know how to do the others...
...Take fibroids, for instance. Parker challenges the common misconception that fibroids can often become cancerous; the actual incidence of cancer cases in women with fibroids is very rare, less than 1 in 1,000. According to Parker, patients should treat fibroids by communicating with their doctor and monitoring how the fibroids make them feel-whether they cause pain, bloating or heavy menstrual bleeding and whether they affect mood and energy levels. For patients who choose to remove fibroids, there are alternatives to hysterectomy: laparoscopic myomectomy eliminates fibroids through half-inch incisions made in the abdominal wall. In fibroid embolization...
...Because of the potential hazards involved with radiation exposure, Einstein warns patients against attempts to "get pretty pictures of their heart" without a doctor's recommendation. Otherwise, he says, the CTCA can be an excellent noninvasive alternative to the current gold standard test for heart disease, the coronary angiography, which involves threading a catheter from the groin to the heart's blood vessels, and can cause complications such as blood clots, infection and even death. CTCA is also a good substitute for the time-consuming diagnostic tests in use in emergency departments; with CTCA physicians can find out sooner when...