The Woman who Toils.

Sister Kenny. The woman who challenged the doctors

The woman who could not hold up her head.

Low serum potassium concentration is a frequently encountered abnormality, seldom accompanied by life-threatening symptoms. We present a 55-year-old women with a severe, symptomatic hypokalaemia. The pathogenesis and clinical manifestations are discussed.

The young woman who could not stop vomiting.

Accepted 23 April 1998 An unmarried, unemployed, 28-year-old woman presented to us with self-induced vomiting, reduced sleep, and crying spells. Four years ago, she had begun thinking that she and her family were obese. She started taking only liquids and induced vomiting. She used bees honey and lemon juice in the belief that these would reduce her weight. One year later she developed spontane...

A woman who couldn't speak: report of methotrexate neurotoxicity.

The association between methotrexate therapy and idiosyncratic neurological complications is well recognised in children. This case illustrates the importance of considering the diagnosis of methotrexate toxicity in an adult patient with behavioural and speech disturbances, who received it by intrathecal route only and in whom the only indicator was an abnormal electroencephalographic study.

POEM: I am an Engineer who happens to be a woman who is Black

Engineering I loved it, but it did not love me back. Is it because I am a woman or because I am Black? These are traits, by which I am defined. Labeled, placed in a box, I have been confined. My intellect, my own abilities, I am beginning to doubt. To gain back self-worth, I must get out. Others too, sad to say, will face this same dilemma, before graduation day. Is this degree worth it? Am I t...