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Article: Certain STDs Reach Highs.(Representative Tom Coburn warns of the spread of sexually transmitted disease)(Brief Article)
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- Insight on the News
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- November 16, 1998
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Sexually transmitted diseases continue to spread among Americans, many of whom discount the risk of contracting one. A congressman who also is a doctor is sounding a shrill warning.
Rep. Tom Coburn, one of the few practicing doctors in Congress, regularly delivers babies -- at least 100 so far this year. But he also informs many patients that they have a sexually transmitted disease, or STD. The news can be crushing, says the Oklahoma Republican. "You break hearts."
The personal suffering caused by STDs, plus their explosive growth in the U.S. population, has prompted Coburn to write a prescription for the nation. "It's time for the sexual revolution of ...