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...blocks to get to my office - all by herself. I bent over to take a look at her hand, which Mattie described as "locking and hurting and sleeping all the time." She had simultaneous and rather bad cases of two hand-surgery classics - carpal tunnel syndrome and trigger finger, a tendon-related condition that causes fingers to catch in a bent position. Other docs had given Mattie splints and shots, but her hand was getting worse. It was clear that if I didn't treat the carpal tunnel and release the pressure on the nerve in her wrist...
With age-dimmed eyes she scanned the page, jumped up, and pointing with her crooked, numb finger she put the letter in front of my face. "Right here - they don't pay if I go to that hospital," she said. "Why can't you do it in your office, doct...
...Even some of the police officers who were going through our finger prints and mugshots said they support our cause and encouraged us to continue our movement,” Ross said...
...survived battle with the mighty Israeli army, while the supporters of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora's government are poorly armed amateurs on neighborhood patrol. Neither the police nor the military--which has received hundreds of millions of dollars in arms and training from the U.S.--dared to lift a finger against Hizballah. Long after the militiamen had withdrawn from the streets, the army said it would intervene in any ongoing clashes but added that it would not disarm Hizballah...
...respect won't save the Amazon; after all, few people were more respected than Silva. And after five and a half years of sticking her finger in holes, she eventually decided enough was enough. If Minc is to stand any chance of succeeding where Silva failed, then his presence in Brasilia will have to be more than symbolic. Nothing suggests it will...