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...fenberg, Ernst, a German gynecologist and sex researcher...
...ailments have altered so much basic behavior so quickly. Perhaps the reason is its sudden upsurge and incurability. As many family doctors put it: "It won't kill you, but you won't kill it either." "Herpes is a puzzle, an enigma," says Dr. John Grossman, a Washington, D.C., gynecologist. "The medical community doesn't do very well with viruses anyway, and with this one, our bodies aren't able to give us any assistance in killing it." All by itself, says New York Group Therapist Dominick Riccio, herpes has changed the uneasy balance between sex for pleasure...
...says. "What am I supposed to do, say 'How do you do, my name's Ilene, I have herpes'?" Surprisingly, many doctors counsel silence on the first encounter, mostly because their patients' psyches are shaky. "Due to the rejection some of my patients were getting," says New York Gynecologist Michael Truppin, "I finally began advising them not to tell initially. If they tell at first, the other person disappears." Says another doctor: "Every time you kiss someone good night, do you tell them you sometimes get cold sores on your mouth...
...different sort of treatment is being tried by Los Angeles Gynecologist Robert Scott. He has used a carbon dioxide laser to vaporize herpes lesions in 100 patients and reports a 70% success rate in preventing or delaying recurrences...
...case, a woman's fallopian tubes are tied (a form of sterilization) after she gives birth because her doctor suspects that her uterus is unfit for another pregnancy. He gets her permission while she is half-paralyzed by anesthesia. Another woman is dragooned into a hysterectomy by a gynecologist who refuses to discuss any other options and falsely assures her that "it's just a little operation. [After] a day or two, you'll be bouncing around." According to Harrison, almost every woman giving birth at Beth Israel (which in the book she calls "Doctors Hospital...