Word: painful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...significant part because of the Byrd family, which preached harmony and refused to blame the entire white community for the acts of three men. King's father, for his part, apologized to the Byrds for the murder. "Please pray for the Byrd family, who have endured unimaginable pain and loss," he said. At one point, one of Byrd's daughters embraced a sorrowing Ronald King and whispered, "It's not your fault...
Disturbing as those stories were, their significance pales in comparison to a far less sensational piece published in the New England Journal of Medicine. A carefully conducted study found that doctors were 40% less likely to order sophisticated cardiac tests for women and blacks who complained about chest pain than for men and whites with identical symptoms. After subjecting the data to statistical tests to assure its reliability, the study's authors concluded that the disparity in what are literally life-and-death decisions about medical care was most likely due to unconscious biases about gender and race...
...classic chest-crushing pain that is the hallmark of a heart attack turns out to be mainly a male symptom. Women's heart attacks, by contrast, tend to show up as shortness of breath, fatigue and jaw pain, stretched out over hours rather than minutes...
...break-up. Unless the couple marries, at some point, they are going to break up. Maybe it's at the end of the first year, and they decided not to block together, thus saving a lot of pain. But it could also be in the middle of the year. I know of a couple that was inseparable for months. When they broke up, they never spoke again, even though they lived next door to each other...
...break-up. Unless the couple marries, at some point, they are going to break up. Maybe it's at the end of the first year, and they decided not to block together, thus saving a lot of pain. But it could also be in the middle of the year. I know of a couple that was inseparable for months. When they broke up, they never spoke again, even though they lived next door to each other...