Word: tonsillitis
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...message: Guns kill kids too. And of course Hillary Rodham Clinton returned to center stage with a coolly effective defense of her own child advocacy, as the image of daughter Chelsea loomed large on the screen behind her. (Message to the Other Couple: We know about delivery rooms and tonsil operations.) Vice President Al Gore did his part in the family reunion, using the story of his sister's death from lung cancer to point out the ravages of teenage smoking...
AILING. BRETT BUTLER, 38, Dodgers center fielder; from cancer; in Los Angeles. In the course of a scheduled tonsillectomy, Butler's doctor discovered a cancerous tumor on the ballplayer's right tonsil and removed it. Butler faces further surgery, to be followed by weeks of chemotherapy before the state of his career and his health can be determined...
...York's Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn anesthetized Newman's throat by inserting needles in his hands and feet. With assistants, Fox then rotated the needles for 20 minutes while the patient gradually lost feeling. A small benign growth was then painlessly removed from the left tonsil. According to Newman, similar surgery performed several months earlier under a conventional topical anesthetic had caused him "excruciatingly sharp pain...
...Girls, a glossy employment agency aimed at young job seekers. The placement agency's three Manhattan offices grossed $2,000,000 in their first year of operation and Lois has signed up franchisers in twelve major cities. More recently, Lois Holland Callaway founded a recording company, whimsically named Tonsil Records; its first offering features a rock jazz group called The Gas Mask...
...abortion performed in a good hospital by a qualified physician under sanitary conditions is statistically as safe as having one's tonsil's removed," writes Sikes. The operation, done correctly, usually takes about 15 to 20 minutes. The most common procedure (called a D and C-dilatation and curettage) removes the fetus by a simple scraping of the womb. In England, doctors use the newly developed vacuum aspirator, which pulls the fetus out like a vacuum cleaner. Both methods are effective until the woman is in her twelfth week of pregnancy...