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The Wisdom of the Body perks up considerably in its accounts of medical case histories. Some of them have the adrenaline-charged force of a Grisham page turner. In his opening chapter, Nuland writes of Margaret Hansen, 42, who was rushed to the emergency room of St. Raphael's hospital...
That case is hard to make when even abortion opponents admit that few hospitals perform third-trimester abortions and fewer still the controversial procedure in which a doctor removes a fetus feetfirst, then makes an incision in the baby's head to suck out the brain, collapse the skull and...
...discomfort as she lay recovering from a hysterectomy at the Christ Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio. Again and again, the 46-year-old mother of two complained of pain in her upper abdomen, and again and again the people who came into her room to care for her wrote down "incisional pain" on her chart, although the incision was in her lower abdomen. Finally, after three days, as her temperature spiked and her blood pressure plummeted, Strunk's doctors suspected the truth: her bowel had been nicked in the surgery, and she was succumbing to a massive infection spawned by leaking...
In the darkened doorway of an abandoned building, the medical team finds an empty coffin, waiting like carrion. One by one, neighbors explain, the family that lived there died. First the daughter, 18, went to the Kikwit 2 maternity hospital in late March for a caesarean section. When she got...
But more important than any futuristic technology is the change in attitude that has begun to occur. "Why punish the skin, the muscles, the fat when all you want is the kidney?" demands Washington University's Clayman. "Once you ask that question, everything changes. Soon, to make any kind of...