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Beyond the Script - What Happens When the Heroine Faints - NYTim. The common faint was enshrined in my adolescent imagination by movies.

Beyond the Script - What Happens When the Heroine Faints - NYTim

Remember the beautiful heroine -- fainters on film are always women -- overcome by shock, touching her brow with the back of her hand and falling limply into waiting arms. Her faint was stereotyped and contrived -- yet riveting. It made fainting seem benign, almost glamorous. When I became a doctor, fainting started to be called syncope, a decidedly less romantic disease. More Than Just a Faint - Letter. Timely Tilt-Table Truths - Letter. Timely Tilt-Table Truths - Letter. 暈厥的原因及治療. A Young Woman With Exercise-Induced Syncope. Syncope: eMedicine Cardiology. Syncope and Related Paroxysmal Spells: eMedicine Neurology. Syncope: eMedicine Pediatrics: Cardiac Disease and Critical Care.