Word: pill
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which is the crucial trouble with The Happy Ending. The lady in question is Mary Wilson (Jean Simmons), who has been married for well over a decade to an enterprising Denver lawyer named Ered Wilson (John Forsythe). Soon after the breakfast scene, Mary is revealed to be an alcoholic, pill-popping neurotic who flies off to the Bahamas to calm her tortured soul. Providing some salve under the sun are an old college buddy turned mistress-for-hire (Shirley Jones) and her latest beau (Lloyd Bridges), who watch benignly as Mary succumbs to the brilliantine blandishments of an aging gigolo...
...most glaring defect in discussion of the Pill has been the slight attention, if any, given to the failure of too many U.S. doctors to study their patients before prescribing it. When a woman aged 15 to 45 asks a physician for the Pill, she is almost invariably handed a prescription that is often, in practice, refillable indefinitely. This is bad medicine. A conscientious doctor will ask the woman, if he does not already know, whether she has had any blood tests, and whether they showed anything unusual about her blood sugar or clotting. Has she had high blood pressure...
Then the doctor can quickly decide whether the Pill carries an unacceptable risk for this particular patient. If it does, he is ethically obliged to refuse her the prescription and to suggest some other contraceptive such as a diaphragm or IUD. If all U.S. doctors followed these rules they could avert many, perhaps a majority, of the severe and fatal Pill reactions now being reported...
...other measures now under consideration could reduce the harmful effects still further. British research, cited repeatedly at Nelson's hearings, suggests that the risk of clotting is somewhat greater with the sequential pills. It is also directly related to the amount of estrogen in either type of Pill, and is markedly increased if the estrogen component is more than 50 micrograms (less than two millionths of an ounce). Britain has already officially discouraged the dispensing of pills with any higher estrogen content. By this reasoning, women in the U.S. would find themselves limited to seven...
...types are approved for general prescription: 1) 21 daily combination pills containing synthetic equivalents of the hormones progesterone and estrogen, with the latter in a microscopic dose; 2) sequential pills, which provide tablets of an estrogen alone for 14 to 16 days, followed by five to seven combination tablets. A third variety, the "one-everyday" pill of progestin (progesterone equivalent) only, is being tested but is not yet licensed for U.S. prescription...