Great Moments in Journalism: Take Up Thy Stethoscope And Walk
Great Moments in Journalism are submitted by readers, and can be sent to this address.Today's Moment is - oh, sweet Christ, we're too hungover to set this one up, and even were we in Olympic-competition condition, it'd still be a struggle. Just read the damn thing.
Depending on where you are in your life, what you are doing, your age and sex, baldness is loved or hated — or just accepted. Baldness can be bought and bought off. But it is not a medical treatment, at least not since shaving the head for lice was stopped.
In one patient, however, shaving the head was life saving.
A 50-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital with complaints of severe weakness and difficulty breathing. She had been quite healthy until the afternoon of the admission, with no history of serious illnesses.
The doctors at the university hospital where she became a patient are known for using their brains. They also use their stethoscopes wisely, and observe closely how a patient looks.
Wow. So they're, like, doctors? Amazing.
