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To: JakeStraw who wrote (23071)	9/8/2000 1:17:56 PM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 49844

Julie Andrews Settles Lawsuit Updated 9:45 AM ET September 8, 2000 BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) - Julie Andrews settled a medical malpractice lawsuit with doctors who she said destroyed her singing voice with a botched operation. The settlement was reached Thursday with Dr. Scott Kessler, Dr. Jeffrey Libin and Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, said Andrews spokesman Gene Schwam. "I am glad to have settled this case in a favorable manner and am glad to close this chapter on an event which was unfortunate for all concerned," Andrews said in a statement. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Andrews has been unable to sing professionally due to what the suit described as "profound vocal difficulties, including severe hoarseness" since she underwent surgery to remove non-cancerous throat nodules in June 1997. The operation was recommended after Andrews experienced difficulties with her throat and voice while performing seven to eight shows a week of "Victor/Victoria" between October 1995 and June 1997, the lawsuit alleged. The suit said Andrews was never told the operation carried the risk of complications that might leave her unable to sing. Instead, it alleged, doctors said the operation would eliminate her vocal problems. Andrews won an Oscar for her role in "Mary Poppins" and starred in "The Sound of Music." Her stage credits include the original Broadway versions of "My Fair Lady" and "Camelot."

To: JakeStraw who wrote (23071)	9/8/2000 1:26:42 PM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Respond to of 49844

Hand Jive Updated 7:37 AM ET September 8, 2000 news.excite.com By Patricia Reaney LONDON (Reuters) - A rare, poorly understood and often misdiagnosed brain injury is causing sufferers to lose control of a hand so it behaves as if it has a mind of its own, an Italian scientist said Thursday. Dubbed the "Dr Strangelove Syndrome" after the character created by the late comedian Peter Sellers in the film of the same name, anarchic hand sufferers have one hand that performs against their will. "This is a bizarre symptom," Professor Sergio Della Sala, of the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, told the British Association for the Advancement of Science festival. "There are patients with lesions in the frontal lobes of the brain who have one hand that behaves in capricious ways. So one hand performs actions that the patient does not want to perform." Because they cannot control what one hand will do, the two hands often end up fighting with each other much like Sellers' Dr Strangelove character. In the 1964 black comedy the wheelchair-bound scientist's hand kept attacking him and going into a Nazi salute which he continually tried to stop with his other hand. "The patients are exactly like Peter Sellers. They come and they slam their hand and they shout: 'my hand does things that I don't want to do,"' Della Sala told a news conference. One patient he treated arrived with the anarchic hand tied behind her back because she was afraid of what it would do. Another patient had difficulty eating a fish meal because the anarchic hand kept putting leftover fish bones back into her mouth. "The phenomenon greatly distresses sufferers and disrupts their daily life," he said, adding that it is so grotesque it often borders on the comic. Only 40 cases of the syndrome have been recorded in medical literature, with the first reported in Germany in 1909. Della Sala believes it has occurred more frequently but that sufferers were misdiagnosed and treated for psychiatric problems. The condition is caused by damage to the supplementary motor areas of brain which can occur during an accident, injury or stroke. It can happen to anyone and to either hand. One case of anarchic foot has also been documented, according to Della Sala. ========================================================= 1/2 the population has a body part with a mind of it's own so I don't see what the big deal is.