Word: cared
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...that serves a working-class white and Hispanic area within comfortable reach of five hospital emergency rooms. But as time passes each day, one E.R. after another claims saturation and closes down. Paramedics with life-and-death cases must sometimes beg or bluff their way in. Equally frustrating, trauma-care capability gets entangled with the community's demand for street medicine. High-speed runs for "unknown rescue" all too often involve nothing more than cut fingers, headaches and family hysteria...
...radio barked again while St. Andrew and Tayenaka were still in the parking lot, and they took off at top speed. Arriving with the siren blaring, they found a man who had cut his hand in a minor traffic accident and wanted hospital care. A county-contracted private ambulance took the case. "He'll get a bill," said Tayenaka, "but nobody pays." Later a drunken partygoer fell and cut his head slightly; he wanted an ambulance...
...least of all, our care of the realm currently specified by Senator Al Gore. "The environment has become a question of national security," says Gore. Indeed, environmental threats are the most analogous to military ones, and it's easy enough to stretch national security's original intent in this direction. "Environmental refugees" fleeing from homelands ! made barren by shattered ecosystems are poignantly reminiscent of fugitives from the plains of war. Social instability, breeder of violence, is a spreading by-product of desertification and deforestation in lands as far apart as the Philippines and Egypt...
...wounds they hoped never to see outside a war zone: it is to Los Angeles, which had more automatic-weapons victims than Beirut last year, that the U.S. Army sends its physicians for combat training, at Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center. "What gives out is not patient care," says Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal of New York Hospital, "but our sanity...
Doctors are loath to admit that patients may be dying because they cannot get proper treatment in overcrowded emergency rooms. Indeed, under such harsh conditions, they are rightly proud of the high level of expert care they maintain. But in some hospitals, as volume grows, there are bound to be errors: in 1988, for example, the New York State health department reported that poor patient care was at least partly responsible for twelve deaths that year at Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx. In one case, a 30-year-old woman with chest pains died after waiting 5 1/2 hours...