And the poor get children

doi:10.1136/bmjusa.03040010

BMJ, doi: 10.1136/bmjusa.03040010, (Published 6 May 2003)

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And the poor get children

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From BMJ USA 2003;April:230

Even though I heard the lecture more than 57 years ago, I stillremember Dr T Leon Howard's words on interstitial cystitis.In his delightful southern drawl, he began, "You've just fallenasleep, and somebody starts poking you in the back and saying,`Get up and go pee; get up and go pee' and that goes on allnight long."

I remember other lectures not quite so earthily phrased: a dour pharmacologist on the convulsions of strychnine poisoning;an ill-tempered obstetrician on the mechanisms of labor; anda courtly internist on the signs and symptoms of aortic insufficiency.

I do not remember a single mention of abortion by any memberof the faculty of the School of Medicine of the Universityof Colorado. I graduated in 1945 with a profound convictionthat it was terrible to perform an abortion, except perhapsto save the life of . . . [Full text of this article]

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