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Gay patients' discrimination fear Gay and lesbian patients are often reluctant to reveal their sexuality to their doctors because they fear their treatment will suffer, a report claims. A British Medical Association report also says some homosexual doctors do not 'come out' to colleagues...

FRANKFURT, Nov 17 (Reuters) - Patients suffering from erectile dysfunction prefer rival drugs over the pioneering treatment, Pfizer's (nyse: PFE - news - people) Viagra, two studies to be presented at a meeting of sexual medicine researchers showed. Cialis, a drug marketed by Lilly-ICOS, a...

Jim and Mary were both patients in a mental hospital. One day while they were walking past the hospital swimming pool, Jim suddenly jumped into the deep end. He sunk to the bottom and stayed there. Mary promptly jumped in to save him. She swam to the bottom and pulled Jim out. When the medical...