Doctors

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  • Conniving brothers and dead-end jobs

    This week, Dr. McFeely attends to uncomfortable skirts, scandalized chat roomers and a man who's doing it to his own brother's mop.
  • Tokyo teens

    A gynecologist dispenses sex information to girls out of a burger joint.
  • Physicians' Desk Reference, 55th edition

    Why doesn't anyone know that Elvis' favorite book, the Physicians' Desk Reference, is written by drug companies?
  • Illegal procedures

    A doctor is expelled from the medical register for performing clitoris surgery.
  • Bringing back the dead

    A 3-year-old girl is submerged under water for five minutes. When you're the doctor trying to resuscitate her, how do you know when to stop?
  • Diagnosis: Doctor's arrogance

    "There are very few words of thanks for the nurses that save the doctor's ass time and time again."
  • English doctor likes to watch

    A fertility physician is arrested for monitoring patients' sexual activity.
  • Dying on Ritalin

    A teenager's fatal heart attack raises troubling questions about the safety of a drug whose popularity is exploding.
  • Born to pop pills

    I have a well-chosen capsule for every occasion.
  • Who wins, who dies?

    Congress must stop fighting about transplant regulations and deal with the real problem: the shortage of donated organs.
  • Football's cattle call

    In advance of this weekend's NFL draft, doctors inspect the hearts, minds and muscles of top college players.
  • Chunky Chinese

    A growing number of spoiled only children are obese, and may face diminished future sex lives because of it.
  • The hardest question

    Even after doing it hundreds of times, it's never easy to ask someone whether they want you to let them die.
  • "Terminus"

    A harrowing poem about rape and murder in the Balkans.
  • Stupid Patient of the Year

    An emergency room doctor selects the best and the brightest.
  • Direct to you

    Drug companies are spending big bucks so you'll ask your doctor for their products by name.
  • Mixed meds

    Think twice before mixing your herbs and your prescription medicine.
  • My first dead body

    Medical school taught me how to save lives, but left out the part about how I would feel when someone died.
  • Long-distance surgery

    Telemedicine allows doctors to be in several places at once.
  • Mother love in an African village

    Is it worth saving a baby's life if everything else changes?
  • The end of the general practitioner

    When pharmacists know so much, why do we need family docs?
  • Diagnosis: Marriage

    When my husband gets ill, I'm the one who feels sick.
  • Married to my beeper

    For a doctor, having a pager is a little like being in a relationship -- only without the sex.
  • Letters to the Editor

    Will MP3.com make you a rock star? Plus: If pilots can boost safety, your doctor ought to be able to; looking for literature's "real men."
  • Word doctor

    A Harvard physician believes poetry can soothe and even heal his patients.
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