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How important is education in a relationship, and can we be happy if he is less ambitious than I am?
By Cary Tennis
April 9, 2008
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Some doctors are conscience-clausing their way out of performing basic gynecological screening.
By Lynn Harris
February 27, 2008
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We're mostly online friends, and I'm kind of shy. I care but do not want to intrude.
By Cary Tennis
February 15, 2008
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I moved to Colorado but could move back if I had to.
By Cary Tennis
February 6, 2008
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A new study finds that breast cancer patients treated by female surgeons were more likely to receive post-op radiation.
By Carol Lloyd
January 31, 2008
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Awash in antidepressants, America is manipulated by Big Pharma and numbed out to basic, and inevitable, human pain -- or so argue critics of our serotonin nation.
By Jerome Weeks
January 29, 2008
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Susan Wicklund has received death threats and worn a bulletproof vest to work. But what really scares her, she writes in "This Common Secret," is the war on reproductive rights.
By Eryn Loeb
January 22, 2008
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I sometimes have to leave the room it's so bad! Should I say something?
By Cary Tennis
January 7, 2008
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Adrian Peterson is set to return, but should the Vikings have shut him down? And does the team's record figure into that decision?
November 27, 2007
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My wife and I could live anywhere and have great success as doctors, but my mother and sister are ill and need help at home.
By Cary Tennis
October 16, 2007
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He says he got them knocked out in a fight years ago, but he's deathly afraid to get it fixed.
By Cary Tennis
September 20, 2007
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Do doctors tell women enough about prescription drugs and birth defects?
By Lynn Harris
September 19, 2007
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The medical establishment doesn't talk much about bust shrinkage, but all women eventually experience it. Why can't we openly discuss the stages of breast regression?
By R. Jan Gurley
September 18, 2007
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Before germ theory, humoral medicine -- based on magical thinking and ignorant of human anatomy -- dominated for 2,000 years. So why are today's doctors guided by some surprisingly similar principles?
By Andrew O'Hehir
August 8, 2007
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"Real men" don't see doctors, study of teens suggests.
By Lynn Harris
April 11, 2007
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In "House," impossibly gorgeous physicians miraculously diagnose rare diseases in every episode. Where I work as a nurse, in the Ordinary Hospital, sometimes there's not even a doctor in the house.
By Sallie Tisdale
April 4, 2007
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I wanted to die even before I got sick. But my family will kill me if I just give up hope!
By Cary Tennis
March 8, 2007
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Swedish clinics ban women from choosing female doctors.
By Katharine Mieszkowski
January 29, 2007
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He did good work at first ... but I don't want the hands of a crazy man around my neck.
By Cary Tennis
January 18, 2007
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An essay about the perils of healing while female.
By Rebecca Traister
November 21, 2006
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Angered that their professional organization has adopted a policy condoning psychologists' participation in "war on terror" interrogations, many psychologists are vowing to stage a battle royal at the APA's annual meeting.
By Mark Benjamin
July 26, 2006
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More on a new campaign for advance emergency contraception prescriptions.
By Lynn Harris
May 10, 2006
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The war on drugs is preventing many Americans from getting desperately needed pain medicine.
By Damien Cave
April 4, 2002
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"My Dead Relative," "My After-School Special," "Boo-Hoo" and other essays that might get you a job after medical school.
By Aran Kadar
February 26, 2002
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This week, Dr. McFeely attends to uncomfortable skirts, scandalized chat roomers and a man who's doing it to his own brother's mop.
By Chris Colin
August 6, 2001
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