Word: endocrinologist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been unable to explain the link between a bewildering array of physical and psychological problems and a normal physiological event. As a result, women have been urged to cope as best they can with bed rest and aspirin, or they have been labeled neurotics and offered tranquilizers. Says Psychiatrist-Endocrinologist Ronald Norris of Boston's Tufts University School of Medicine: "When there's no obvious injury, physicians tend not to be sympathetic." Neither is the public. According to a poll conducted for Tampax, 22% believe that menstrual pain is psychosomatic...
...between 35 mg and 60 mg of glucose in 100 ml of blood. Doctors now stress that the diagnosis cannot be based on numbers alone; the data must be matched to symptoms. One study found values as low as 22 mg per 100 ml in apparently healthy women. Says Endocrinologist Simeon Margolis of Johns Hopkins University: "It does not mean anything if somebody's blood sugar is lower than some arbitrary value. What matters is if low blood sugar produces ill effects...
...physicians. "It's all in your head," they are usually told before being shuttled off to psychologists and psychiatrists. Now comes a report in this week's Journal of the American Medical Association urging doctors to take a closer look at the patient's physical condition. Endocrinologist Richard Spark of Boston's Beth Israel Hospital writes that the problem in many cases is medical, not mental. Using sensitive radioimmunoassay techniques that can pick up infinitesimal levels of hormones in the blood, Dr. Spark and his team studied 105 impotent men, aged 18 to 75. They found...