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...convinced that an un-healing wound is sure evidence of malpractice. There's a whole lot on the line with a skin incision. And like most blessings, healing is not given much mind until it fails to occur. I learned this taking care of a patient named Manuel...
...routine case: Manuel was an office worker, 31 years old, a little overweight but in otherwise good shape. The two half-inch-long incisions I made on his knee doing arthroscopic surgery had not healed when he came to my office a week afterward to get his stitches out. So I had him come back a week later, then two more weeks later. The knee joint was ok but at the fourth week I was still staring at two gaping holes in unhealed skin. They were like cuts on a cadaver; it was creepy. There didn't seem...
...idea came to mind. Because openings into joints can let bacteria in, I had kept Manuel on oral antibiotics. But I recalled an experiment done with lab mice bred in a sterile environment. Without any bacteria around they couldn't heal cuts in their skin. Maybe my antibiotics were suppressing some bacteria that were needed to coax these knee wounds to heal. So I stopped the antibiotics and brought Manuel back a week later. No dice - still no change...
...performance outclassed Mexico's usual disaster response (after the 1985 earthquake, the public basically had to rescue itself while officials tried to underplay the casualties). It also helped Calderón show he cares about poor people in the south, the home turf of his populist rival Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who still tours the country calling himself the "legitimate President...
...country that's nutty about gossip, veteran barbers Cesar Larios and Manuel Rodriguez run the engine room of the national rumor mill - ? Managua's landmark Imperial Barbershop. Since this modest three-chair barbershop opened its doors 35 years ago, Rodriguez and Larios have seated, aproned and lathered some of Nicaragua's most important politicians, bankers and powerbrokers. Right-wing former president Arnoldo Alem?n and ex-communist guerrilla leader Henry "Modesto" Ruiz are both on the client list. His Eminence, Cardinal Miguel Obando y Bravo, the country's top religious authority, has been getting the same haircut here for 30 years...