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...tend to be influenced by the last experience we had or something that made a deep impression on us," Groopman says. So if it's January, your doctor has just seen 14 patients with the flu and you show up with muscle aches and a fever, he or she is more likely to say you have the flu--which is fine unless it's really meningitis or a reaction to a tetanus shot that you forgot to mention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Doctors Go Wrong | 3/15/2007 | See Source »

...over Penn’s Radhika Ahluwalia and Princeton’s Claire Rein-Weston before falling to Reddy in four games. Junior Jennifer Blumberg defeated the Tigers’ Casey Riley but lost to Lange in the Round of 16. And senior Audrey Duboc, recently recovered from the flu, edged Williams’ Toby Eyre in five games in the opening round. But Lorentzen proved too tough to overcome in the Round of 16, as Duboc’s former teammate continued her march to the semifinals with a four-game win. —Staff writer Karan Lodha...

Author: By Douglas A. Baerlein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Grigg Ends Career With Individual Gold | 3/5/2007 | See Source »

...because the author employs a word on the first page considered inappropriate for its young audience: “scrotum.” According to the New York Times, the book reads, “Scrotum sounded to Lucky like something green that comes up when you have the flu and cough too much...

Author: By Ronald K. Kamdem | Title: Not So Lucky | 3/1/2007 | See Source »

...it’s cold and flu season, as it is right now, we’ll see a high use of all those drugs with the exception of aspirin,” DiRusso said...

Author: By Clifford M. Marks, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pain Relievers May Cause High Blood Pressure | 3/1/2007 | See Source »

...Indeed, before this sudden bout of flu, China's market had risen 11% in just six trading sessions, having already soared an astonishing 130% last year. It was about time for a sharp reminder that what goes up occasionally comes down. That said, many China bulls were soon back in the game: on Feb. 28, much to the doomsayers' surprise, Shanghai's main stock index jumped nearly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind China's Stock Meltdown | 2/28/2007 | See Source »

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