Medicine: Jusl Pooped

Mothers who cannot get over "that tired feeling," and complain that their doctors are no help, won sympathy in an unexpected quarter last week. At an Atlantic City meeting of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, amid such topics as pelvic surgery and total body sodium, the Cleveland Clinic's Dr. Leonard Lovshin flashed a picture on the screen, explained: "We have here a tired mother. She is not sick—she is tired. She is not maladjusted—she is pooped."

Nothing could be more natural, says Internist Lovshin: "No psychoanalysis or deep probing is necessary. She has a work day of 16 hours, a...

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