Word: dysmenorrhea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...care outside a hospital, and specifically excluded diagnostic procedures. The result has been connivance to defraud the insurers. Often if a woman needs a diagnostic pelvic examination that might better?but need not necessarily?be done in a hospital, her doctor enters some meaningless diagnosis such as leucorrhea or dysmenorrhea (which practically every woman has now and then) and plunks her in the hospital for two days. The insurance pays virtually all the hospital bill and, if the family has coverage of the Blue Shield type, the doctor's bill as well. To Mark Berke, director of San Francisco...
...Erdelyi noted that competitors in certain sports-swimming, diving, skiing, ice skating-are more susceptible than other female athletes to gynecologic disorders such as dysmenorrhea (painful, difficult menstruation) and inflammation of the internal sex organs. Menstruation, he found, often impairs ability: "I found extremely poor performance in tennis and rowing during the menstrual period." Since female athletes exhibit top skill, strength and muscle tone just after menstruation, many deliberately provoke the onset of menstruation with hormone injections before sports contests...
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