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...public housing. "The ills of the banlieue are French ills." It's in the projects themselves that the symptoms are the most severe. In Sens' Champs Plaisants project, school-age youths roam the tenements or fake calls on street-side phone booths while working as scouts for local drug dealers. "Dealers pay kids between €20 and €30 per 15 minutes to keep a watch for police patrols or strangers in the area," says Fort, who, like many municipal officials, is implementing Borloo's measures and augmenting them with policies of her own. She has made a tough anticrime...
...introduction of computerized patient information and medication orders is meant to reduce "adverse drug events" and ensure that the patient's history and treatment notes are available to everyone who needs them. But progress does not always equal safety. "Technology should remove the burden, but you can get problems. You can hide behind technology and spend more time talking to your computer than to your patients," says Dr. Albert Wu, a professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins. "And as with any new thing, people screw things up worse before they make things better." Doctors say there is a temptation...
...attending neurologist said one drug should be started immediately, that "time is of the essence." That was on a Thursday morning at 10 a.m. The first dose was given 60 hours later, on Saturday night at 10 p.m. "Nothing I could do, nothing I did, nothing I could think of made any difference," Berwick said in a speech to colleagues. "It nearly drove me mad." One medication was discontinued by a physician's order on the first day of admission and yet was brought by a nurse every single evening for 14 days straight. "No day passed--not one--without...
...alleged trespasser was first spotted in Cabot House on March 17. He knocked on a Cabot resident’s door and asked them to engage in illegal drug use with him, said HUPD spokesman Steven G. Catalano...
...Party aspirant Jeff Akel is a hilarious exception. Trying to spread conservative values across his high school, Akel prints posters with slogans like “If from drink you get your thrill, take precaution—write your will” and “All the dangerous drug abusers end up safe as total losers.” He advocates a three-pronged policy that includes bringing random locker searches to their upper middle class suburban high school...