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Viagra users are only getting younger. Five years ago, the typical patient was a married man in his 60s. Nowadays, he's still married but more likely to be in his 50s. One trend that has started to worry public-health officials, however, is the growing recreational use of Viagra in some settings. Gay men seem to be at the vanguard of this trend. Viagra, often in combination with illegal drugs like ecstasy, enables patrons of sex clubs to have sex with more partners, which increases their risk of contracting sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) like syphilis and aids...
...real blow to the profession has been the assault on autonomy. Physicians spend endless days and long years acquiring an extraordinarily specialized skill and then find themselves being told by some 23-year-old HMO administrator a thousand miles away how many minutes they can spend with a patient, how long they can keep him in the hospital and what kind of treatment they are allowed to give him. The introduction of managed care may be societally necessary to keep down costs. But we should at least recognize its cost to the dignity and effectiveness of the profession it regulates...
...came to the aid of Strom Thurmond when the Senator, then 98, collapsed on the Senate floor. But now, Frist, 50, is beginning a different kind of rescue mission, one that he may not be fully equipped to handle. Congress starts a new session this week, and the patient before Frist is his own party, still reeling from the Trent Lott debacle...
...life of its screenwriter and title character. Abused verbally by his foster mother and sexually by his foster father, Fisher later avoids dismissal from the military by agreeing to psychiatric counseling with Dr. Jerome Davenport (Washington), who helps him overcome his difficult past. If a side-plot involving a patient potential love interest (Joy Bryant) makes Antwone Fisher Good sound like Good Will Hunting, Washington’s film similarly benefits from strong acting and its hopeful depiction of a tormented youth on the verge of adulthood. Antwone Fisher screens...
...most people stricken with the virus, treatment is limited to drinking fluids such as ginger ale, although Campbell said intravenous fluids are administered if a patient becomes acutely dehydrated...