Word: stroke
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...technology? Look at what Corporate Defense Strategies of Maywood, N.J., has on offer. Last year managers at a New York City import-export company suspected it was being robbed by two employees. CDS advised the firm to install Investigator, a software program that could furtively log every single stroke of the suspects' computer keys and send an encrypted e-mail report to CDS. Investigator revealed that the two were deleting orders from the corporate books after they were processed, pocketing the revenues and building their own company from within. The program picked up on their plan to return...
After former President Gerald Ford suffered one or possibly two mild strokes while attending the Republican National Convention last week, his doctors quickly predicted a full recovery. But his illness raised a troubling question: How could a team of specially trained physicians initially misdiagnose a stroke, especially in a former President, who, one assumes, always receives the very best medical care? The answer, unfortunately, is quite easy. Strokes are often misdiagnosed, even by excellent doctors, for a simple reason. Many symptoms commonly linked with stroke are also seen in other illnesses...
...sinus or inner-ear infection, doctors treated him with antibiotics and sent him off within an hour. But while their treatment might be considered reasonable in light of what he told them at the time, the 87-year-old former Chief Executive subsequently returned to the hospital with classic stroke symptoms...
...speech was slurred, as was evident in replays of TV interviews he'd given on the convention floor. He had a weakness in his left arm, which occurs in many stroke patients along with weakness in the face or leg on the same side. Ford didn't exhibit two other common symptoms, blurred vision and a sudden, severe headache. But that's not surprising, since symptoms vary among patients...
...aggressively competitive psyche--either of which could provide a margin of victory in races that are often won by hundredths of a second. In the fly, her muscular shoulders power in and out of the water with such remarkable grace that Quick points out the obvious: "Watch Jenny's stroke. It's the best in the world...