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...root out their biases and insensitivities. Instead, a subculture envelops them and reinforces each other's stereotypes of patients." A common mnemonic used in medical school to help identify women who develop gallstones is "fat, 40, with four kids." $ Says the author: "It took forever for me to see slender, unmarried women as candidates for gallbladder disease." Prejudiced and mistaken notions also can govern the treatment offered to black women, lesbians and those with a history of venereal disease. For example, says Smith, a doctor quickly diagnosed in a young, married black woman chronic pelvic inflammatory disease -- an ailment that...
...Then a slender silhouette, her face hidden by wild locks of curly hair and a black leather jacket draped over her flowered sundress, glides in from stage left. Without even acknowledging the audience, she hunches her head over the microphone and starts to sing in sultry Texas twang...
...variously known as a laparoscope (when used in the abdomen), an arthroscope (when applied to the joints), a thoracoscope (when the chest is involved) and an angioscope (when the target lies inside blood vessel walls). But apart from differences in length and thickness, all these scopes are fundamentally alike: slender fiber-optic tubes that can be inserted deep inside the body through minute (1-cm-long or less) incisions. With the addition of a tiny telescopic lens, a miniature light source and a palm-size video camera, these tubes are transformed into videoscopes that project images of the patient...
...Writers such as Barbara Ehrenreich have praised Roseanne for helping root feminism in the family and give it a raw eloquence. "Roseanne gave working-class feminism a face," says Ehrenreich. "The typical image of a feminist in the media has been the Murphy Brown type -- the very successful, very slender, very perfectly organized professional woman. And we didn't have a media image of another kind of feminist who, obviously, is not slender or successful or organized...
Among the residents, merchants and criminals of Venice, Calif., officer Kelly Shea is as well known as the neighborhood gang leaders. The blond mane neatly tied back, slender figure and pink lipstick violate the stereotype of guardian of law and order; but Shea, 32, has managed to win the respect of street thugs who usually answer more readily to the slam of a cop's billy club. She speaks softly, raising her voice only as needed. While her record of arrests during her 10 years on patrol is comparable to those of the men in her division, she has been...