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Gerhard Meier, an internist who examined Sunny when she was taken to Newport Hospital on Dec. 21, 1980, suffering her second coma, said that she had "low blood sugar and an incredibly high insulin level," which is considered an abnormal combination. The defense had hoped that pretrial depositions from lab technicians would substantiate a mix-up in tests indicating that the insulin might have been manufactured in Sunny's body after her admission. But on the stand the technicians said they had been "confused" by defense questions in the pretrial testimony, and insisted that the tests actually had been...
Severe immunological vulnerability poses some tricky medical problems. "Specific infections can be treated," says Internist Henry Masur of New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, "but the person will usually just come down with another infection two months later." Masur has seen homosexual patients be sieged by bacteria, fungi and offbeat viruses, all in quick succession. "Why this group has something suddenly wrong with its immunity is a mystery...
Whatever the cause, doctors, are advising potential victims to be wary of severe infections or any prolonged illness characterized by fatigue and weight loss. They are also warning homosexuals to limit their sexual contacts. "Promiscuous behavior is an old-fashioned term that nobody likes to use," observes New York Internist Daniel William, who treats many homosexuals, "but it increases the risk...
...suggesting to a patient what to take for a cold, a cough, a pain or an ache [Oct 12]. But then, who knows what the cold is? What is behind the cough, and what causes the pain? If a clinical pharmacist can treat the patient just as an internist would, why not train a butcher in clinical skills and let him practice medicine as a surgeon does...
...which raises the question, "Why?" Why does this man--who, besides holding a professorship, is a board-certified internist with an M.D. from Western Reserve and a Harvard Masters in public health, and a researcher in epidemiology (the study of risk factors contributing to the outbreak of epidemics)--spend many of his evenings singing with undergraduate men and women half his age? Is there an element of the Peter Pan syndrome at work here, an attempt to retain youth through proximity...