Word: mistakenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...them and reinforces each other's stereotypes of patients." A common mnemonic used in medical school to help identify women who develop gallstones is "fat, 40, with four kids." $ Says the author: "It took forever for me to see slender, unmarried women as candidates for gallbladder disease." Prejudiced and mistaken notions also can govern the treatment offered to black women, lesbians and those with a history of venereal disease. For example, says Smith, a doctor quickly diagnosed in a young, married black woman chronic pelvic inflammatory disease -- an ailment that results from previous venereal infection -- though nothing in her history...
...Rembrandt Research Project has fallen on paintings that no one with half an eye, after seeing this show, could go back to thinking of as Rembrandts: How did the light, high-colored, almost garish Feast of Esther by Jan Lievens, or the finicky execution of Gerrit Dou, ever get mistaken...
...feel it is a important to correct this mistaken coverage in order to acknowledge the efforts of the individuals who worked hard in this particular situation. It is also important to recognize that this is a typical media approach to race relations issues--one that reduces racial conflict to issues between Blacks and whites...
Citing statistics about the high percentage ofstudents on financial aid and from public highschools, Fitzsimmons said that perceptions ofHarvard as unattainable are mistaken...
This reporter, mistaken for a member of theHarvard Lampoon, was initially refused entranceinto the area. Actual Lampoon members did not makea stir, although one student did sneak into theaudience wearing a green monster mask...