Word: pneumonia
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...great blessing to many in his community. It is also, unfortunately, soon to vanish from American medicine. Even our general practice physicians - who don't do procedures like surgeons do - are fast changing from prescribing docs to "medical distributors": farming out the problems they find to specialists. (Pneumonia? See the pulmonologist. Tonsillitis? Ear, nose and throat doctor...
...missed the beginning of the spring season because of loose cartilage in his ankle. He practiced as hard as possible given his injury—hitting while seated, maintaining his strength—and would have been ready to play against No. 3 Virginia 12 days earlier but contracted pneumonia...
...Then an article was published. My father actually took me and my brother out of school so that he could tell us the truth before we read it in the papers that our mother had committed suicide. Because up until then, he had always told us she died of pneumonia. I asked him once, "Why did you do that?" He said, "What do you tell a three-year-old who doesn't understand?" And he said, "Once having told a three-year-old something that they could cope with at the time, how do you determine the age at which...
...need it," says Dr. Paul Glasziou, director of the Center for Evidence-Based Medicine in Oxford, England. There have never been randomized trials to show that giving electrical shocks to a heart that has stopped beating saves more lives than doing nothing, for example. Similarly, giving antibiotics to treat pneumonia has never been rigorously tested from a scientific point of view. It's clear to everyone, however, that if you want to survive a bout of bacterial pneumonia, antibiotics are your best bet, and nobody would want to go into cardiac arrest without a crash cart handy. "Where randomized trials...
...Detention House. The pneumonia marked the beginning of serious physical deterioration. The prolonged lack of nutritious food, sunshine and fresh air made full recovery impossible and caused the body's aging process to speed up. It also reduced my mental powers to such an extent that I often found it difficult to concentrate on one subject for long. The prospect of losing my ability to think logically and analytically frightened me more than the fact that my hair was falling out by the handful, my gums bled and I had lost a great deal of weight...