pillow. Her countenance indicated exhaustion, and she did not wish to be disturbed ; preferring, as she said, death to any further interference. Her friends stated that labour pains set in four days before, and that the membranes broke and the waters were discharged thirty hours previous to my visit. The pains having been slight, and the labour having made no advance, midwives of repute were se...

Bird by Gavin Yamey She sits in the armchair by the birdcage, watching the cockatiel’s doomed attempts at flight. The porcelain swans on the mantelpiece are loved for their regal shine. She crochets baby clothes to the music of Val Doonican, sucks on boiled sweets with hardened gums, finds solace in card games and brandy. Once a week she visits her doctor. “Hello Esther, what can I do for you t...

INTRODUCTION Prolapse of the fallopian tube after hysterectomy is a rare but known complication. Cases of prolapse of the fallopian tube through the vaginal vault have been reported after abdominal, vaginal or laparoscopic hysterectomies. This is the first case report to the best of our knowledge on the prolapse of a fallopian tube through an abdominal wound after caesarean section. CASE PRES...

  ABSTRACT Carcinoma of the vulva has commonly been recognized as a disease of postmenopausal women, but some cases have been reported in young women during pregnancy. Medical records were reviewed for a patient with vulvar carcinoma diagnosed in pregnancy. Using Medline and cross references, pertinent articles were sought and reviewed. A 28-year-old Afghan woman in her sixth...

If you had to choose one word to describe Rita Colwell, it would probably be ‘indefatigable’. A small woman who could easily pass for a decade younger than her 63 years, Colwell is renowned for her energy and ability to make things happen. These qualities should serve her well in her next job, as director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) — for which she awaits confirmation by the US Sen...

She is 36 weeks pregnant. She worries that if she leaves her community now she will spend weeks waiting for this second baby. She knows her husband and her aunt will take good care of the little one she leaves behind, but her daughter is too young to understand why her mother is leaving. Will her husband and family be able to join her when she welcomes her newborn? Will she be alone? She is any...

Numerous scientific texts insist on safe topical application of specific herbal products like those containing Boswellia oleogumresin, but adverse effects arising during clinical trials of herbal medicines give the opportunity to clarify the blind spots in the area of drug safety. A 36-year-old woman without allergic background had two burn wounds because of hot oil. Her hand's wound w...

Question: A 78-year-old woman presented with 500 mL hematochezia, hypotension, and a hemoglobin level of 5.4 g/dL. She had a history of right hemilobectomy of the liver and hepatojejunostomy for Klatskin tumor IIIA at other institutions 2 years before. Her medical history also included mitral regurgitation. Emergency esophagogastroduodenoscopy revealed a large, bluish, rugged mass with a smooth...

The recent case of a 41-year-old British tourist, whose breast cancer was first suggested by a visit to a popular tourist attraction in Scotland, prompted us to consider how travel may serendipitously yield unforeseen diagnoses. The woman and her family were entertained in the thermal imaging camera room of the Camera Obscura and World of Illusions exhibit in Edinburgh when she noticed that her...

In her Idea of Perfection, Ms. Murdoch criticizes what she takes to be an existentialist conception ethics. This is not, however, existentialist, either in the sense which Sartre characterized it, or any those other existentialists from Dostoyevsky onwards. Whether alternative ethic better worse than that I do not know; but one contrast other.