Word: hernia
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...inflexibility that has worsened the present impasse, but the background of the crisis is complex. Constantly rising demands for care have all but overwhelmed NHS and raised its costs to $8.2 billion. This has forced some people to wait months, or in some cases years, for routine treatments like hernia repair and other elective operations. For years the nation's 15,000 junior hospital doctors have put up with the long hours (more than 80 a week) and low wages (still held to a maximum of ?6,279 or $12,872 a year) because they have hoped to attain...
...hearing aid for a deaf left ear, a painful lump on his right kneecap diagnosed as Osgood-Schlatter's disease, a hiatal hernia and a limp-the result of a World War II shrapnel wound. He also has a history of alcoholism, and after his first marriage failed, he suffered a nervous breakdown...
...Medich is probably even more worthwhile. Medich, a 19-game winner last season, doubles as a third-year medical student at Pitt. "A lot of guys ask me for advice," says Medich. "Last year Elliott Maddox had a bulge in his abdomen. I told him it might be a hernia or a ruptured pyramidalis" (a small rudimentary muscle). Medich's diagnosis was correct; Maddox had a hernia...
...matter of life and death. Too few bowel movements and too little bulk in the stools, they write in the Journal of the A.M.A., may partly explain the occurrence of such varied disorders as heart and gall-bladder disease, appendicitis, diverticulosis, varicose veins, clotting in the deep veins, hiatal hernia and cancer of the large intestine...
...position to shield my crotch from any stray glances, and I started going bananas. I began to shake uncontrollably--arms, legs, stomach--because I was in the grip of two incontrollable forces. One: don't give yourself away. Two: attack him. If it were possible to get a hernia while sitting down, I would have gotten one. After about five minutes of this, I got up, took a cold shower, and went back to bed with pajamas. I might as well save you the trouble: it didn't help...