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Archives for November 2012

When The Vegetative Patient May Be Able To Communicate

November 30, 2012 by Judy Foreman Leave a Comment

One of the most vexing emotional and ethical issues in all of medicine is the decision by family members to “pull the plug,” that is, to take a severely ill, non-communicate relative off of the life-support systems keeping him or her alive.

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Insuring Against Cancer Patients’ Infertility

November 23, 2012 by Judy Foreman Leave a Comment

Imagine being a young woman in your 30s. You have just received a diagnosis of breast cancer, as more than 10,000 women your age in the U.S. do every year. Other young women your age may get similarly horrifying news — ovarian cancer, leukemia, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

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Questioning The Ads For Below-The-Waist Surgery

November 23, 2012 by Judy Foreman Leave a Comment

Not surprisingly, the headline about “designer vagina” procedures in a press release this week from BMJ Open, an online publication of the esteemed BMJ (formerly the British Medical Journal) caught my eye — and stopped my coffee cup in midair.

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For Adults In Pain, Just Say Yes To Marijuana

November 14, 2012 by Judy Foreman Leave a Comment

I have just finished writing a book on chronic pain and, although I didn’t initially plan it this way, I ended up devoting an entire chapter to marijuana because, as I did my research, I found considerable evidence that marijuana is both safe and reasonably effective at relieving pain. In fact, if a person taking opioids (narcotics) for pain relief also smokes marijuana, the dose of opioids needed can often be reduced.

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Inmate Sex Change: Should We Pay And Does The Surgery Actually Work?

November 13, 2012 by Judy Foreman Leave a Comment

As the controversy continues to swirl over sex change surgery for convicted murderer Michelle Lynn (formerly Robert) Kosilek (there’s a hearing this month on whether taxpayers should pay for her electrolysis), I got to wondering about some of the questions this case raises.

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