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...would Drs. Gunther and Diekema take this argument? Would they agree to amputate a child's legs to keep her lighter and more portable? Hormone treatment is nowhere near as risky and disfiguring as amputation, Diekema retorts; it just accelerates a natural process by which the body stops growing. Parents of short children give them growth hormones for social more than medical reasons, he notes. How can it be O.K. to make someone "unnaturally" taller but not smaller? To warnings of a slippery slope, Gunther tilts the logic the other way: "The argument that a beneficial treatment should...
...haven't heard, is the nickname for Dr. Derek Shepherd (Patrick Demsey), the handsome, married neurosurgeon who broke intern Meredith Grey's heart. Finn (Chris O'Donnell), aka McVet, is a shaggy-haired veterinarian she's been dating to get over McDreamy. In the season finale of the show Drs. Shepherd and Grey unleashed their passion in an exam room of Seattle Grace Hospital. Now McDreamy wants her back. Or does he? And whom will Meredith choose? Producers have been frustratingly mum on the subject. "In the season premiere a relationship will...
...three female and two male surgical interns in a fictional Seattle hospital. She stocked her pilot with the kind of complex, ambitious, clever, confused women she knew. And the guys? Actually, she didn't want them to be so very real. "They were my fantasy men," says Rhimes of Drs. Burke (Isaiah Washington) and Shepherd (Patrick Dempsey), two more senior surgeons. "They got to say and do things that I wish men would...
Like many great medical breakthroughs, Drs. Abhay and Rani Bang's discovery of how to reduce child deaths in the developing world as much as 75% came from a deceptively simple premise. "We decided to listen to our patients," says Abhay. That may sound obvious, but in 1986, when the pair returned to their poor, central Indian hometown of Gadchiroli with master's degrees in public health from Johns Hopkins University, it was a novel approach...
...been nearly 25 years since Drs. Barry Marshall and J. Robin Warren showed that the vast majority of peptic ulcers are caused by a bacterium called Helicobacter pylori, a discovery that was honored last week with a Nobel Prize. Yet I'm always surprised by how many ulcer sufferers don't realize that their stomach pains can be easily and effectively cured with antibiotics...