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In the early 1970s, this was a universally fatal disease, but Wyatt underwent experimental treatment with massive doses of radiation and chemotherapy. First Wyatt developed severe radiation-associated coronary disease.

Though city hospitals invoke images of charity patients from teeming, poverty-stricken slums, of substandard, last-resort medical care, the reality is quite different. Bellevue Hospital is synonymous in many people's minds with 'urban medicine' -- something that is not quite its own specialty yet but is growing as a concept of how health and medical treatment develop where large populations live in close proximity to each other, where ethnic and economic diversity are palpable

Poetry is a supremely sensory art, both in the imagining and in the writing. What happens when the poet faces illness? How is the poetry affected by alterations of the body and mind? This paper examines the poetry of several writers afflicted by physical illness-poets of great renown and poets who might be classified as 'emerging voices,' in order to explore the interplay between creativity and corporeal vulnerability

[...] at every stop of the whirlwind publicity tour that follows she is opposed by religious fanatics, and a senator proposes a bill defining a human being as one who has a genetic code equivalent to the human genome decoded in 2003. [...] not to worry, Lucy manages to escape to the shelter of a Native American reservation, where she is adopted into warm anonymity, falls in love, and even gets pregnant, hinting that her father's dream of a 'superior' race may indeed be fulfilled, or at the very least that there will be a sequel.

Then I compliment myself on a job well done. I've covered all the relevant screening topics. I've touched all the bases of preventative medicine for a healthy woman. I've even managed to finish on time, so I won't have to keep the next patient waiting. But my patient has a quizzical look on her face. Is that all there is, she seems to be asking. In fact, through our extensive discussion, and the initial blood pressure check, we have fulfilled all of the medical interventions that scientific evidence has validated as helpful for a healthy patient. But my patient is dissatisfied. A doctor's visit is not a doctor's visit until a stethoscope has probed the inner rhythms of the heart and a set of medical hands has palpated the belly. Research has shown that patients expect a physical exam. I cringe whenever our hospital administration refers to doctors and nurses as 'health care providers.' The term always makes me feel like a dispenser at Burger King. I'm not a 'provider,' I'm a person, a doctor. My patient is not a 'customer' or a 'client.' We are not transacting business