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...that but is critical." The Hebeins, who live in Evanston, Ill., will be forever grateful to their pediatrician, Arthur Dechovitz, for the way he delivered that but. "When Chris was born, parents were being told to institutionalize their children. We never had that kind of experience," Sheila says. "The doctor said, 'Here's your baby. Who do you think he looks like? The most important thing is that you love him and you treat him like you would treat any other baby.'" Hebein, who has served as executive director of the National Association for Down Syndrome since 1979, says...
...Prenatal counseling and diagnosis are not a search-and-destroy mission," insists Dr. Malone, who has seen many of his patients choose to continue a Down pregnancy. "Most of us would not answer the question, 'Doctor, do you think I should terminate?' It's not for us to decide...
There's really nothing funny about what happened to Rebekah Beddoe, except maybe for a little black comedy at the end. In 1999, a psychiatrist diagnosed her with postnatal depression, which she probably didn't have, and for the next three years multiple doctors treated her with drugs that she almost certainly didn't need. As episodes of deliberately cutting herself progressed to bouts of mental torment and suicide attempts, Beddoe's carers, concluding that her illness was worsening, kept upping her dosages and trying new medications. Nothing worked. Eventually, Beddoe acted on a different idea. Without telling anyone...
...course of electroconvulsive therapy. But her condition worsened. In 2000 she tried to end her life by overdosing on sleeping pills, the first of four such attempts. At her mother's urging she switched psychiatrists, but after stripping back her regimen to a single drug, Prozac, the new doctor gradually built it up again. Beddoe developed akathisia, which she describes "as a horrible energy that fills you with angst and dread and propels you to move about constantly." Akathisia can be a manifestation of SSRI sensitivity, and "it's psychiatry's dirty little secret," says skeptic Lucire. But Beddoe...
...Thin Blue Line HIV testing has come a long way since the mid-1990s, when patients had to wait as long as two weeks to learn whether they were HIV-positive and were given the news--which could be a death sentence--by a doctor, a nurse or a trained counselor. Now AIDS can be effectively treated with antiretroviral drugs, and FDA approval seems imminent for the first over-the-counter HIV test for use in the home: the OraQuick Advance. With a swab of saliva taken from the gums, the kit (currently sold to doctors and clinics for about...