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JOHN F. KENNEDY'S Appalachian oak rocking chair from North Carolina was recommended by his doctor to ease J.F.K.'s chronic lower-back pain. But it eventually signified contemplation in the White House...
...what Margaret Hillesheim, a grandmother of three, wondered when she woke up in her suburban Minneapolis, Minn., home a few weeks ago. She had an ugly cough and a stifling case of sniffles. What Hillesheim, 56, didn't have was an inclination to spend half the morning in a doctor's waiting room. Instead, she went to Cub Foods, her local supermarket. Specifically, she dropped by a tiny clinic nestled beside the store's pharmacy, just across from the cigarette counter. There, behind a frosted-glass partition, a nurse practitioner examined Hillesheim, typing her vital signs and symptoms into...
...Years in jail, plus a $5,000 fine, a doctor would face for performing an illegal abortion in South Dakota, under a new law that bans the procedure except to save the mother's life...
...series of recent studies, researchers found that a larger waist circumference is a good indicator for metabolic syndrome, a constellation of physiologic changes that can lead to diabetes and heart disease. "I call it a vital sign," Despres says of the simple measure that he believes every doctor should include in every physical exam. "It's as important to know the size of your waistline as it is to know your cholesterol or blood pressure." Such a simple measurement, he says, could serve as a wake-up call for patients; by losing just 2 lbs. to 4 lbs., people with...
...essay "Why I Dumped The Baby Doctor" [Feb. 27], Michelle Cottle argued that pediatricians should be more responsive to the concerns of nervous parents. As a nurse and mother for more than 25 years, I was dismayed by Cottle's account of her irrational fears. She traded a doctor who was very busy for a doctor who had plenty of time to develop a codependent relationship with a phobic parent. Her new doctor, whom she said she is seeing "about once a week," is taking advantage of a mother who apparently would rather spend time chatting with the baby doctor...