Word: sicklied
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...find the patient's medical history is most likely to turn up the valuable clue, but there's also the "gut check". We all love this mysterious genius that springs up in us once in a while; it's the thing that tells us little Johnnie is getting sick, Mary seems pregnant or Billy is lying. Alternative medicine practitioners claim they use these indescribable diagnostic methods a lot. M.D.'s use "gut feeling" as well, but we won't do an operation or give a dangerous medication based on it alone...
...truth is psychological or social need is a common source of undiagnosed pain. There are people for whom "being sick" is the only way (they think) they can get love and attention. As most orthopedists are still human beings, these patients are not that hard to identify, and they are easily treated with a few drops of the milk of human kindness...
...Eddy exaggerated the pain of minor injuries in order to get out of a job he didn't like. He probably didn't think he would really become disabled by being a good plaintiff. It's the evil twin of rehabilitation - act sick-get sick - and it happens a lot. "Accentuate the negative" may be sound legal counsel, but it's the worst possible medical advice anyone could ever give. It's a pain for the doctor, and often ultimately, an even bigger pain for the patient...
...floor or your spouse’s/partner’s/date’s mouth? It’s definitely not the floor, but I quite enjoy kissing. Finally, wait until you have kids and you hug and kiss them—even or especially when they are sick. That leads to interesting exposures. We don’t live in a germ free world, but fortunately we have great host defenses and a vigorous immune system...
...through a column titled "Communism is Good, Capitalism is Bad" in the Young Pioneers Weekly, a newspaper I read avidly from age 7 to 12. The column ran two stories side by side, one taking place in China and one in America, with similar scenarios: an old man getting sick, say, or a flood devouring a town. The Chinese tales ended happily, as fairy tales do; the American ones showed a renjian diyu, a hell in real life...