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...physician and comedian Jonathan Miller once pooled his two professional skills to describe the symptoms of a rare disease called cataplexy. Its victims are physically unable to laugh, though they desperately want to. "As they are about to laugh," Dr. Miller explained, "they are seized by a total paralysis and they slither helpless to the floor." The paralysis ends only when the impulse to laugh leaves them: the price of health is absolute sobriety...
...present trends to use the Mediterranean as the ultimate receptacle of noxious waste continue, Arvid Pardo said, its fishing industry will disappear in a few years. Swedish Ecologist Bengt Lundholm reported that only 14% of Italy's seacoast is now free of pollution. Dr. Jerold M. Lowenstein, a physician specializing in nuclear medicine, warned that radioactive wastes from an ever increasing number of nuclear power plants might endanger all life in and around the oceans...
...rules of sound medical practice have a carefully built-in safeguard for the woman patient being examined or treated by a male doctor: another woman, usually a nurse, must be present. There is no corresponding protection for the physician who is the object of seductive advances during interviews with his female patients. Psychiatrist Herbert Vandervoort of the University of California at San Francisco believes that such advances are made often enough to justify having inexperienced young doctors forewarned and provided with a check list of the various seductive types whom they will have to recognize and fend...
...learned early to handle her anxiety in regard to men by flirting with them. The doctor is in no great danger because habitual flirts rarely go beyond the stages of teasing, promising and innuendo. DOCTOR KILLER. A "downright dangerous" patient, actually a man-hater who must dominate her physician to meet her own psychological needs. If she succeeds in seducing him, she will spread word of her triumph to destroy him socially and professionally. BABY DOLL. The wide-eyed, superficially compliant "young thing" (but of any age), who tries to make the doctor feel "You are such a great...
Loyal to his professional colleagues, Vandervoort believes that most doctors are likely to be baffled when women patients set their sights on them as men rather than as physicians. But his judgment of those who succumb to blandishments is harsh. He assigns them to a medical subspecies of H.L. Mencken's Boobus americanus. To the degree that a doctor surrenders to the fantasy of being irresistible, he becomes ineffective as a physician...