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...article in the New England Journal of Medicine, it received a spate of critical letters. Gastroenterologist William Haubrich of La Jolla, Calif., protested that proffering a bill to a fellow doctor smacks of commercialism and erodes the strong feelings of fraternalism in the medical community. Oklahoma City Internist Ernest Warner Jr. added: "One of the greatest honors one can receive is to be asked by a fellow physician to care for his or her family...
...many years doctors suspected that the higher levels of estrogens-the female sex hormones -in women somehow protected them against heart attacks. Reason: it is only after menopause, when estrogen production drops, that the incidence of heart attacks begins to rise among women. Now a Columbia University internist has found evidence that undermines this theory...
...Wacker, director of the University Health Services, says UHS treats about eight anorexics a year, two of whom have to be hospitalized in Stillman Infirmary. Since most anorexics deny there is anything wrong with them and are generally brought to the doctor by their parents, Dr. Lauring Conant, an internist at UHS, says, there are probably more anorexic students at Harvard than UHS treats...
...Lauring Conant, an internist at UHS, e0xplains that denial of the problems keeps patients from seeing a doctor. He has seen only two "full-blown" cases of anorexia in the past two years. "One of the terrifying things with this disease," Conant says, "is that they're on a dangerous crevice of 65 pounds and engage in vocational and avocational activities and get in trouble. Even though they may look like prisoners or war victims, they still engage in sports and you wonder how they can do it. Characteristically they are high achievers, intelligent students. Even in starvation, their cerebral...
Regardless of the pitch, the doctors who do most of the prescribing are positive that within the past few years, women are leaving the pill in increasing numbers for the diaphragm. Dr. Pengwynne Blevins, who perhaps sees more students about birth control than any other internist, says she can't give a percentage, but she thinks people are "turning away from the pill. Women are changing their views. The diaphragm is gaining acceptance," she says. Louis C. Brown, another internist, concurs, saying "there is an increasing move away from the pill" to the diaphragm and other methods...