Word: petry
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...Petri is an ostomate, one of a million Americans who has had their large intestine or bladder removed because of cancer or disease. An artificial opening is made through the abdomen for removal of body waste which is collected by a plastic appliance...
Ostomates pass unnoticed for the most part and they are not handicapped, according to Petri. Women, she said yesterday, can do everything but belly dance, and she mentioned Jerry Kramer of the Green Bay Packers as an example of the successful adaptation of an ostomate to professional sports...
...Petri said that she scored in the 90th percentile and above on all four parts of the medical aptitude test (MCAT) and that a letter from her doctor accompanied her med school applications...
...spite of what she termed her "perfect academic record" and the accompanying letter from her doctor, Petri was turned down by the Cornell, Duke, Columbia and Tufts Med Schools...
...Petri said that in spite of the med schools' misgivings about admitting an ostomate, "the more I protested that I was normal, the more they insinuated that...