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Leaning back under the pressure, Corriero’s face becomes visible to the press box as her neck moves in the direction of the pulling, tilting her head towards the rafters. Her left arm swings backward over her shoulder, and, for a moment, it seems like Corriero might actually get pulled down to the ice and fall...
...rather than what it is: a serious and consequential health issue in its own right. A long-suffering Michigan physician and mother of three, who asks that her name not be used, knows this both as a doctor and as a patient whose life has been compromised by severe neck pain stemming from a 1999 car accident. "I know all too well how most doctors really feel about people with chronic pain who don't get better: disdainful and contemptuous," she says. "There is a real sense of the patient as a failure and a weak person...
...play went off splendidly. Distaffina wore a low neck and short sleeves, and on her introducing a fancy dance, the applause almost shook old Hollis down,” he said. “Another member of the Club lived in the rooms across the entry, and there we had the pudding after the play, the actors kept on their dresses and poor Distaffina was nearly bothered to death by her admirers...
...tethers--like the leash on Gus--were put to use at Abu Ghraib to control unruly or mentally disturbed detainees, sometimes with the concurrence of a doctor. That such a restraint-- which is supposed to be placed around legs, arms or torsos--ended up instead around a man's neck seems to be a case of a medically condoned practice degenerating into abuse. But there was also medical disarray at the prison: amputations performed by nondoctors, chest tubes recycled from the dead to the living, a medic ordered, by one account, to cover up a homicide. That in itself would...
...many of eBay's 125 million users around the world, there's nothing simpler than selling stuff via the online auction site and then shipping it out. But not for all of them. "It seems like a pain in the neck," says Rosalie Labovitch, a fashion consultant from West London, who wanted to sell a cashmere dressing gown but didn't want to deal with the nuts and bolts of the process. "I lead a very busy life. I just want to get rid." With no time to write a blurb and take digital photos of the gown, submit them...