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My battle against gonorrhea.
The familiar white urinals, puce-colored walls, and the queasy odor of disinfectant in M207—the men’s room on the mezzanine floor of the University of Pittsburgh’s medical school. I remember standing in a ragged line of seven young men across from the toilet stalls, pants stripped to my ankles. This was the moment, the crux of the clinical trial, the procedure that had seemed so trivial a few w...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association
سال: 1898
ISSN: 0098-7484
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1898.72440620012001b