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...Yarmouk Hospital, a beige concrete-and-brick building that looks more like an old warehouse than one of the country's best-regarded medical facilities. The Yarmouk district, on Baghdad's western flank, is ringed by the city's most violent neighborhoods, where insurgents tend to concentrate their attacks. Chief surgeon Jamil Bayati estimates that his tiny ER has taken in 10,000 people in the past 12 months and that more than 1,000 of them had "war wounds"--inflicted by insurgents, the U.S. military or Iraqi security forces. Bayati figures that "this is the busiest...
...review of 71 studies in Psychosomatics finds long-term symptoms of concussion tend to persist when patients are involved in a lawsuit. Most improve after their cases are settled...
...present generation of women tend to bring different expectations to their middle passage. "To the extent there is any midlife crisis, to women it does not come as an enormous surprise," says Tace Hedrick, a University of Florida associate professor of women's studies. "Men wake up at 45 and realize, 'I'm not 18 anymore.' But women, their biological clock is ticking. They are constantly reminded that they are aging." The regular reminders of fertility are replaced by the insistent signals of menopause. Anthropologists say male status is typically tied to money and power, which explains why the standard...
...years) and getting divorced (two-thirds of divorces among people 40 to 70 are initiated by the woman) - many realize that a new toy or a new lover can do only so much for one's sense of well being over the long term. Researchers have found that women tend to take a hardheaded look at how their lives are unfolding and where they want to be 10 or 20 years down the road, when they are more than twice as likely as men to be living alone. And when women weigh their prospects, says Elaine Wethington, a Cornell University...
...psychoanalyst Carl Jung explained how in middle age people tend to drop the roles they were playing, outgrow their pretenses. Some women become more willing to take risks as they grow less concerned about what others think. Women who submerged their identity when their children were young may feel a sense of liberation once they are older. Even the death of a parent, while painful and a frequent trigger of midlife depression, can free women from the burden of expectations, as they ask, Who am I doing all this for anyway? Shellenbarger cites research that found men's "dream fulfillment...