Any medical procedure on the outer genitals carries some risk to sexual function. But so can other pelvic surgeries, including hysterectomies and surgeries to remove ovarian cysts or endometriosis tissue, in part because the clitoris is so interconnected with the nerve supply in that region. To understand the risks of pelvic surgery and protect your…
At the physical, Maxwell stared at her doctor in disbelief. She always thought that eating disorders were for skinny people. “I laughed,” she says. “I don’t use language like this any longer, but I told her she was crazy. I told her, ‘No, I have a self-control problem.’” For centuries, the eating disorder that would…
Back in 2009, while he was still training to become an architect, Daniel Toole listened intently as a friend’s parents mused about building a modern house next to their traditional home in Seattle. The couple, Liliane and Michael Flacco, had an extra-wide lot and used much of it for a large garden. But after raising…
The only patients deemed more difficult than insistent patients like Sal were his opposites: patients so overwhelmed that they stopped wanting to pay any attention to their illnesses at all. They are well known to every doctor: a dialysis patient, gray from uremia, eyes glazed over when asked why she missed her last session; a…
“Its impact has been huge, and it’s been pervasive in so many aspects of research and pop culture that it can be hard to wind it back up,” Dr. Moore, a psychological researcher and a professor at the University of California, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, said of the original study. Under the influence of…