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Terminal Suffering: The pain in this worker's arms, neck and shoulder turned out to be tendinities, a repetitive strain injury, caused by working on a computer terminal
Terminal Suffering: The pain in this worker's arms, neck and shoulder turned out to be tendinities, a repetitive strain injury, caused by working on a computer terminal

Terminal Suffering: The pain in this worker's arms, neck and shoulder turned out to be tendinities, a repetitive strain injury, caused by working on a computer terminal

Date1/16/1992
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Original Toronto Star caption: Terminal Suffering: The pain in this worker's arms; neck and shoulder turned out to be tendinities; a repetitive strain injury; caused by working on a computer terminal.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0005937F
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