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...Dr. William Hsiao, a School of Public Health (SPH) professor and ardent critic of inefficiencies in the US health care industry, offers similar critiques of medicine in Hong Kong in a report to be released today...
...BIGGLESWORTH Dr. Evil's cohort named Cats magazine's "Cat of the Year." Socks no longer the big meow...
While the evidence was far less conclusive in 1991, when Motichka was diagnosed, many doctors already believed that less invasive treatments could be effective, and were advising their patients to consider that option. According to Motichka, her physician, Dr. Hiram Cody of New York's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, recommended a mastectomy anyway...
...surface," she says, "but that didn't mean I didn't have difficulty walking down the street." Beyond that, active involvement with oncologists and advocacy groups was educating Motichka about treatment options, and she began to wonder if her disfigurement was a mistake. She went back to Dr. Cody, who insisted that based on the kind of cancer she had, she had never been a good candidate for a lumpectomy...
...seem to have spread. In fact, the biopsy that retrieved a sample of the tumor for testing may have removed the whole thing. She feels she had had all the surgery she needed--before the mastectomy. In 1994 Motichka filed the suit that she finally won two weeks ago. Dr. Cody's attorney maintains that his client discussed lumpectomy with her, but that based on Motichka's family history and her emotional reaction to her mother's death, mastectomy made more sense. Although Motichka denies it, Cody says at one point she was thinking about a double mastectomy...