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...down, this isn't Bennigan's," sassed Ginger, a short blonde in a black dress slit up to the waist, on a recent Wednesday night. My friends and I were at Lips, a Manhattan restaurant that turns into a bingo parlor midweek with drag queens - those over-the-top, tell-it-like-it-is men dressed as women - plucking balls from the bingo cage...
...Well, Dr. A sent me for tests for a blood clot, but they couldn't tell, so he sent me to Dr. B for electronic muscle tests and they think it might be coming from my spine, so I have the MRI and it shows bulging discs. They've been doing laser treatments in physical therapy, but we haven't been able to work it out, and Dr. C is going to start acupuncture but if you could just take a look at this scan...
...Patients like Tim might eventually tell you why they went to the doctor if you keep on asking long enough...
...possible they just didn't know. Small things we take for granted can be enormous problems in the absence of a little knowledge. Take cholera. My gastrointestinal colleagues tell me that although it will make you sick and miserable for a couple of weeks, cholera won't kill you if you simply drink enough water and salt to combat the dehydrating effects of its severe diarrhea. But millions have died from it just because they didn't know. Or how many horrible, slow deaths have there been from scurvy, which a bite of green pepper would have cured? How many...
...life expectancy for Japanese men is 78.56 years, the fourth-longest in the world. But Mitsuru Okamura sped past that age long ago, and if you listen he'll tell you his secret: alcohol. "I enjoy drinking," says Okamura, who still has the posture of the middle school principal he once was. "Shochu, whatever. If it's alcoholic, I'll drink it." It appears to be working: At 90, the bantam-sized Okamura is still fit for his age and trim everywhere but in the ear lobes. While the other residents in the Yairo-en Special Nursing Home's gleaming...