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...TIME should have chosen Chinese physician Jiang Yanyong, who was included in your group of newsmakers of 2003. Jiang told the world about the alarming spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), which caused Asia's horrific health crisis. He risked his life to raise public awareness of this deadly disease. Although the soldiers in Iraq bravely implemented a violent policy, Jiang courageously saved innumerable lives. His efforts served a nobler ideal than war. Robin Som London...
DIED. HAROLD SHIPMAN, 57, British physician and serial killer known as "Dr. Death"; a suicide by hanging; in his London prison cell, where he was serving 15 life sentences, one for each person he was convicted of murdering. An investigation later revealed he had killed as many as 260 patients over 23 years, most of them women living alone whom he visited for checkups and injected with fatal doses of heroin...
...noon that day, Yi met with some of the province's highest health officials. Every person in that room had lived and worked through the first-ever SARS outbreak, and many were clinicians who had watched patients wither, suffocate and die from the disease. Of these physicians, the most powerful was Dr. Zhong Nanshan, 67, director of the Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Disease. Famous for having been a physician to China's late leader Deng Xiaoping, Zhong had also pioneered the earliest clinical treatments of SARS, emerging as the doctor most associated with fighting, and eventually defeating, the disease...
...During intercourse, once a woman's genitals are vigorously rubbed and her womb titillated, a lustfulness (an itch) overwhelms her down there, and the feeling of pleasure and warmth pools out through the rest of her body." HIPPOCRATES, physician (circa...
...that featured a voluptuous Susan Sarandon), age does bring sexual changes for both genders. My father, who flirted outrageously even after he turned 90, liked to tell the story of the old guy who wants his doctor to "lower" his sex urge. At your age, says the astonished physician, you ought to be happy to have any sex urge. "You don't understand, Doc," the old guy persists. "I want you to lower it from here [pointing to his head] to there [his groin]." Erectile dysfunction is, in fact, no joke; it afflicts about 1 of every 4 men over...