Word: paines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dead, killed by high ticket prices that prompt theatergoers to demand something special, and by the genre's own dishonesty. When a TV sitcom resolves an impossible problem in half an hour, viewers know that more trouble will crop up next week. In the theatrical equivalent, pain is glibly and permanently cured by the final curtain...
Like many other doctors who see the unfortunate consequences of endometriosis, Nezhat is concerned that a "lot of women do not seek help for this problem." Any serious pain, he notes, needs investigating. Agrees Cheri Bates: "If a doctor tells you that suffering is a woman's lot in life, get another doctor...
During her teens, Maria Menna Perper, 42, a New Jersey biochemist, suffered intestinal problems around the time of her period. By her late 30s, she felt "excruciating, burning pain" in her colon every month "like clockwork." Eventually the pain became continuous, and it was impossible for her to work or even sit down...
...most common symptom of endometriosis is pain, which can occur during menstruation, urination and sexual intercourse. Unfortunately, these warnings are often overlooked by women and their doctors. Cheri Bates, 31, of Seattle, describes the cramps she suffered as "outrageous," but she assumed they were "normal." By the time her condition was discovered, scar tissue covered her reproductive organs and parts of her bladder and intestines...
...would change. It looks like that promise may well come true. A 58-page bill now going before the state legislature will, if passed, vastly alter the structure of the medical malpractice system, by rescheduling insurance payments, limiting delays before malpractice suits, restricting lawyers' contingency fees, and cutting down "pain and suffering" judgments...