Word: tallness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...question of who should and who shouldn't get growth-hormone therapy is a hornet's nest. The criteria are no longer clear." Many parents have been pressuring doctors to try hormone therapy on children who are not abnormally short. One physician recalls a father who asked if his tall son could be made even taller so he would be sure to make the Notre Dame football team. Says Dr. Joseph Gertner, program director of the Pediatric Clinical Research Center at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center: "As people realize that they have control over certain aspects of their appearance...
...author's son on HGH therapy, but some physicians may be more receptive to parental demands. Says Dr. Douglas Frasier, president of the Lawson Wilkins Pediatric Endocrine Society: "There's a lot of heightism in our society. And there's a sense that if you're not tall enough, somebody ought to be helping you get taller...