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#1 I had my left knee replaced when I was 62 years old. The surgeon said there was a 1 to 2 percent risk of infection, but I later learned that the pain from the surgery was beyond the reach of oxycodone. I became desperate for relief, and tried everything from acupuncture to electro-acupuncture to cold laser.
#2 The book Arthrofibrosis, which my wife found, explained...
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Book Preview: #1 There have been two main ideas about cardiovascular disease over the past 150 years: the cholesterol hypothesis and the alternative hypothesis. The cholesterol hypothesis has become so dominant that it stands alone, unquestioned and unchallenged.
#2 The alternative hypothesis is that blood clots, and blood clotting, are the key players in cardiovascular disease. From...
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#1 I'm a traveling nurse, and I currently live in California. I don't think I'm cut out to be a nurse. The hospital job is important because it's a front-row seat to the reality of nursing. The nurses here run around at a hundred miles a minute, but they project to everyone that they are cool, calm, and collected.
#2 As a traveling nurse, I was assigned to a hospital...
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#1 The human brain contains approximately 100 billion nerve cells, which are called neurons. The proper functioning of the nervous system depends on communication between the neurons. Each neuron receives oxygen, glucose, and a host of other molecules from adjacent capillaries.
#2 The human brain's 100 billion nerve cells are richly interconnected, making approximately...
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#1 The first thing I noticed about Jesse was the fear and anxiety in his eyes. He was a boy with severe social anxiety, sensitivity to touch, and difficulty processing language. He also had a seizure disorder that was detected when he was a toddler.
#2 The traditional approach to diagnosing autism is to look for a combination of deficits, such as difficulty communicating,...
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#1 The biochemistry was finally proven. The elegant hypothesis was proven correct. But the result also proved the hypothesis wrong. The pastor had been sleeping with several women, and when he was confronted, he could not admit to the affair. His life was unraveling faster than he could have imagined.
#2 Shame is the lowest common denominator in human relationships,...
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#1 The most common form of acid damage is gastroesophageal reflux disease, or GERD, which has more than doubled since 1995. It is not always easy to diagnose, as it can only be seen in patients with throat-based symptoms.
#2 Acid reflux is when gastric acid from the stomach goes the wrong way, or refluxes, up into the delicate tissues of the esophagus, causing a burning...
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#1 Your spine is an important part of your body, and it provides you with structure and support. It is also a protector, serving as a bony barrier between your spinal cord and nerves.
#2 The spine is made up of 33 spool-shaped bones called vertebrae. Each vertebra is about an inch thick and stacked one on top of another. The vertebrae are supported by ligaments and connected to muscles...
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#1 The second most important figure in the Vienna circle was Alfred Adler, who founded individual psychology. He was a plain-looking man who had grown up on the city's outskirts. While Freud was a patrician type who had come from a highly educated background, Adler was the working-class son of a grain merchant.
#2 Adler believed that the human psyche is shaped in early...
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#1 The carpenter was sitting on a sidewalk in Midtown Manhattan with his buddies, half a dozen subcontractors in hard hats sipping their coffees before the morning shift got started. The crane fell directly across a busy intersection and the police shut it down, snarling traffic in all directions.
#2 The author was a medical student when she was assigned to autopsies....
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#1 Health is not a fixed entity, but rather something that varies from person to person. It is the ability to adapt to one's environment. Health is not synonymous with a high metabolic rate, but rather a warm body, good digestion, and daily bowel movements.
#2 The thyroid is the butterfly-shaped gland located at the front of your neck. The thyroid synthesizes four thyroid...
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#1 When you get a diagnosis of Hashimoto's thyroiditis, you feel relief, but also betrayal. Your body has let you down, and you don't know what you can trust anymore if you can't trust your body to be on your side.
#2 If you've been diagnosed with hypothyroidism, you may have heard that you're aging prematurely. While your story is your own, and the specifics of what...
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#1 Modern man is the man of the 20th century, and he is the first to have to consider what the future of man will be. The question of man's future is not just relevant for modern man, but for all men of the 20th century.
#2 The first stage in the development of Western man spans the time from approximately 1500 B. C. until the beginning of the Christian age. This stage...
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#1 The reading brain is the result of our intellectual evolution, and it has changed over time as we have learned to read new things. It has expanded our capacity to think, feel, and infer, and it has changed how we communicate.
#2 The brain's ability to learn new things is based on its plastic design, which allows it to make new connections among structures and circuits...
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#1 Nausea is worse than pain. I remember thinking this during the early days of my first pregnancy, a pregnancy I had prayed and wept for, despaired about, and agonized over. But 6 weeks in, I found that I was hating every moment.
#2 Nausea and vomiting of pregnancy is a common problem that affects 70 to 90 percent of pregnant women. It is unclear if it is a disease...
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#1 Cara was a thirty-something woman who came to see me because she was struggling with depression. She had friends, but much of what they had already achieved served only to remind her of what she had not. She was single and longing for a committed relationship, but she saw herself as less than desirable.
#2 The key to healing from the Western world's emphasis on knowledge...
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#1 Dr. Robert Gallo was the keynote speaker at the 5th International Conference on HHV-6 and -7, which was dedicated to the human herpes virus 6. Many Americans still believe he is the scientist who discovered the HIV virus, which causes Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.
#2 John Crewdson, a Pulitzer-prize winning journalist, was among the first to criticize Gallo's...
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#1 Dr. Michael Moskowitz is a psychiatrist-turned-pain-specialist who has often been forced to use himself as a guinea pig. He and another psychiatrist-turned-pain-specialist, Bobby Hines, have set up a pain clinic in Sausalito, California, which treats West Coast patients with intractable pain.
#2 The brain can turn off pain because the function of acute pain is not...
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#1 At night, it is not so bad. But at night, sleepy mistakes make it difficult to keep people moving safely and quickly through the emergency room.
#2 I was called away to another room for a patient with chest pain. Then the paramedics brought in two patients from a motor vehicle accident. I tried to get back to the woman with the headache, but sicker people kept arriving.
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#1 The city's coroner, Patrick Riordan, was trying to fast-talk himself out of charges that he showed up for work drunk. He had been accused of sneering at bodies during an accident eight hours after the crash.
#2 Mors was a nurse at a German Odd Fellows home in Yonkers. He was asked to help with the removal of some of the sickest residents, and he decided to poison...
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