Bookworm on Oct 05 2008 | Filed under: Britain, England, Medicine
From Genesis 3:16 (after the expulsion from Eden):
To the woman He [God] said,
“I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing;
with pain you will give birth to children.
I’m feeling Biblical after having read a story about another one of the “miracles” of universal healthcare, as in effect in Britain:
Hundreds of women are being forced to give [...]
Bookworm on Jun 02 2008 | Filed under: Media matters, Medicine
If you stop at the first paragraph of this AP article, you might think that Teddy Kennedy is the only person on earth who has ever faced a cancer surgery as daunting as the one he underwent (emphasis mine):
Bravery in the face of cancer? Sen. Edward M. Kennedy has given it new meaning. Few things [...]
Bookworm on Apr 22 2008 | Filed under: Health, Medicine
Many years ago, I was talking to a friend of mine who was a medical student on his neurology rotation. He related what was, to me, an amazing story. The patient he saw that day was a fairly young man who had suffered a major stroke, resulting in an almost complete loss of speech (aphasia). [...]
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