Word: hernia
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Five Years to Pay. Even so routine a surgical procedure as hernia repair can end up costing $1,000 in hospital and doctor bills. Charges totaling $1,200 for a routine delivery followed by a four-day stay in a maternity ward are not uncommon. Many such expenses can of course be avoided. Some elective operations can be delayed or even put off indefinitely, though at an eventual cost in health. Other conditions can be controlled, though not cured, by drugs and medication rather than surgery. The expenses of normal childbirth are predictable, and a family has nine months...
...fantasy foods requested in messages dropped to the Yosemite Valley floor. Also in attendance were 40 reporters and cameramen, one of whom finally provided activity for the would-be rescuers. While the climbers celebrated near by, a member of one of the television crews, suffering from a hernia, had to be carried off the mountain by a park-ranger rescue squad...
...ingenious youth aggravated a mild hernia by lifting 100-lb. sacks of sand prior to his exam. Doctors disagreed on the seriousness of his condition, but agreed that anyone so determined to avoid service would make a bad soldier and excused him for psychological reasons. Another failed color tests until he was awarded a 4-F classification, while a married registrant succeeded in convincing doctors that his wife would go crazy in his absence. The prize for determination goes to a six-footer who managed by careful dieting to keep his weight below the minimum for his full height until...
...When a man gets a rupture, often as a result of lifting a heavy object or otherwise striving to serve a female, why can't we term it a lúsnia instead of a hernia...
...disorders," Dr. William S. Breall of San Francisco writes to the Journal editors: "I would like to note a few other possible dangers." First of all, Breall says, a weight lifter should learn to breathe properly, or he may fall in a faint, damage his lungs or suffer a hernia in the groin or the diaphragm. Taking issue with those who dismiss high blood pressure as a hazard, Breall draws attention to the danger of "weight lifter's hypertension." A man performing "severe isometrics," he explains, markedly increases his blood pressure because he tenses his arm or leg muscles...