Word: gynecologist
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...when their health plans deny them care, more information to help them select doctors, and assurances that they won't be stuck with the bill when the chest pains that send them to the emergency room turn out to be indigestion. Women are guaranteed the right to see a gynecologist; doctors, the right to advise their patients when expensive new procedures are better than the ones allowed under their health plan...
...dominance of superficiality--the great deal of time that the author spends living at a pensionaire full of international fashion models, the author's barhopping and picking up of various men, her obsession with a Greek basketball player who cruelly mistreats her, her rather interesting visit to a Greek gynecologist--all of these little adventures add up to next to nothing...
Months after I had given up on fertility treatments, I visited a new gynecologist for a routine exam. When he heard the diagnosis (premature ovarian failure) rendered by a specialist at one of Manhattan's pre-eminent fertility clinics, he scoffed, "You're awfully young for that." I told him my husband Joe and I were launched on an adoption search, but he ignored me. Instead he palpated here, suggested we snip a sample for a biopsy there, then asked, eyes glowing with expectation, "Would you do anything to have a baby?" His confident expression dimmed when I answered firmly...
...that was a different question. Thus my foray into fertility treatment lasted barely eight months--an eye blink compared with the brave women who soldier on year after year. I found every moment of that battle against biology a nightmare. The first salvo was Clomid, prescribed by a gynecologist who, upon learning that I was 37 and Joe 50, warned, "Given your ages, you should proceed as quickly as possible." Eager to hasten a pregnancy that already felt long overdue, I swallowed the pills. But rather than stimulating more eggs, the drug plunged me into a deep depression that left...
This time he's Nicholas Van Orton, super-rich investment banker, too busy to pay attention to his ex-wife--"She married a pediatrician or a gynecologist, or a pediatric gynecologist"--and too stuffy to bond with his rakehell brother Conrad (Sean Penn). As a birthday present, Conrad gives Nick a card for CRS, Consumer Recreation Services, an outfit that devises elaborate, personalized games for select clients. And now Nick is the lucky--or doomed--fellow chosen to play. Nick...