Around that same time, I landed the TV role of "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman" and was back on my feet.

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Mr Dorrell said that it is simply bad medicine to expect a woman to go through two surgeries when only one is necessary.

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There is also useful information and a few photos at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine Web site and woman-specific information at the Women's Sports Foundation, a Web site founded by tennis legend Billie Jean King.

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Michelle Bachelet Jeria, a doctor of medicine, became the first woman president of Chile in 2006.

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But Stephen Dorrell MP, chair of the Health Select Committee, told the Today programme's Sarah Montague when there is a clinical need for the faulty implant to be removed, making the woman go through a second surgical operation is "bad medicine".

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"It's crazy, " said Dr. Walid Saleh, medical director of the Sher Institute for Reproductive Medicine in Dallas, Texas, noting that implanting six embryos clearly violates guidelines set by the American Society for Assisted Reproductive Medicine, which recommends implanting no more than two embryos in a woman under 35.

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Last month, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sacked the sole woman in his cabinet, Health Minister Marziyeh Vahid Dastjerdi, after she blamed the sanctions for causing medicine shortages.

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