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...premium on preventive medicine and the maintenance of good health, it puts a premium on sickness. Until recently, most Blue Cross plans covered no care outside a hospital, and specifically excluded diagnostic procedures. The result has been connivance to defraud the insurers. Often if a woman needs a diagnostic pelvic examination that might better?but need not necessarily?be done in a hospital, her doctor enters some meaningless diagnosis such as leucorrhea or dysmenorrhea (which practically every woman has now and then) and plunks her in the hospital for two days. The insurance pays virtually all the hospital bill...
...women had the common complaints of pelvic pain, a variety of menstrual disorders and, in 66 cases, infertility...
Rasmuson demonstrated typical courage before falling 6-2, 6-3 at number six singles. With the score tied 3-3 in the second set, Rasmuson encountered severe pelvic cramps which greatly inhibited his lateral motion. To Rasmuson's credit, he never once asked for mercy while dropping the final 12 points...
Wallace told the press that his wife, Alabama Governor Lurleen Wallace, had been a spiritual force behind his decision to run. But Mrs. Wallace, recovering from her latest series of radiation treatments for pelvic cancer at Houston's M. D. Anderson Hospital, could not come to Washington for George's announcement...
Later, skin cancer may develop at this site, said Dr. Morgan. Hidden from view are internal cancers (especially of the thyroid), which may take many years to develop, and leukemia or "cancer of the blood." If a woman has a pelvic X ray in the first weeks of pregnancy, the fetus may be damaged, to be aborted or stillborn, or the child may eventually develop leukemia. Completely hidden from diagnosis or measurement are genetic effects, which do not appear until a later generation...