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When I told my wife, who is also 52, about my day-long physical, she wondered if she would have had the same experience. Not exactly. A mammogram, pelvic exam and Pap smear are obvious differences. The effects of hormonal changes associated with menopause, like hot flashes or bone loss, would also be tested. Beyond these, says Dr. Richard Lang, "the issues are the same, but modified by gender...
FALSE ALARM Women who undergo a mammogram every year for 10 years face a 50% risk of at least one false-positive result. And there's a 20% chance they'll get a biopsy. But women should keep getting mammograms despite fears of suspicious findings...
...Commandments is divided into sections that correspond to the laws on Moses' tablets ("My Mammogram" counts the virile male physique as perhaps the ultimate graven image). Its theology is deeply personal, more biographical than biblical. "My Old Idols" remembers the crisp erotic sting of a parochial school instructor wielding a pointer while drilling pupils in Greek: "Accounts of murder and sacrifice/ Only suggested the heavy price/ I longed to pay at his behest." Born on the Main Line, an upscale, old-money suburban Philadelphia neighborhood, McClatchy has an aristocratic tartness that comes through both in his stanzas...
...poems but may also turn out to be the year's best book. Poised, architectural and built to last in the effortlessly disciplined tradition of W.H. Auden and Robert Lowell, the poems also have a sharp confessional kick worthy of Anne Sexton at her most bruising. In "My Mammogram," McClatchy, 52 (editor of the Yale Review and author of the libretto for Emmeline, a new opera by Tobias Picker that opens next week at Lincoln Center), recounts a disturbing examination for cancer of the male breast: "Mammography's on the basement floor./ The nurse has an executioner's gentle eyes...
Over the next 18 months, Nicholaysen returnedto UHS several more times to receive treatment forminor illnesses, but Drake never asked for theresults of the mammogram, according to Meyer...