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When emergency rooms and trauma centers shut down, either permanently or temporarily, the impact sends a shudder throughout the entire medical system. Though patients may be able to choose where they go to have brain surgery, they cannot choose where to have a heart attack, or crash their car, or stumble into cross fire. "The hospitals don't just close their doors to poor people," says Virginia Price-Hastings, director of Los Angeles' trauma hospital programs. "When they're closed, they're closed to everyone." Furthermore, if hospital beds are filled with emergency patients, doctors cannot schedule elective surgeries like...
...obvious solutions to emergency-room overload are expensive and controversial: give people access to affordable health care, pay nurses decently, allow doctors some flexibility in treating their patients and recognize that good preventive care is a sound investment. Though politicians may resist boosting their budgets for medical care, they might be surprised to learn that many of their constituents are willing to pay the price. According to a Gallup poll released this month, 73% of Californians who believe the government should provide better health care for the poor were willing to pay higher taxes for such expanded coverage; 84% favored...
Accordionists are deadening too, though they do not wear earplugs or play deep in the woods. They go deep into dance halls, beer parlors, Communions and bar mitzvahs, inflicting Tico Tico and Hava Nagila with relentless merriment, not to say total disregard for euphony. It is their way of paying homage to their patron, St. Lawrence of Welk, but in fact they only irritate St. Andreas of Fault...
...Francisco is not the only epicenter of this distress. Deborah Norville, new co-anchor on the Today show and a closet accordion player, assaulted her audience with a blunt instrument rendition of the dreaded Lady of Spain. No earthquakes were reported, though the performance succeeded in further sinking the show's shaky Nielsens, while Norville's personal Richter rating slid glissando-style to C below low A, somewhere to the left of the keyboard...
...would not surprise anyone to learn that a certain Big George laces himself into the accordion harness and knocks out a couple of choruses of Boola Boola when he can't find a friend to pitch horseshoes with. Big Barb wears the earplugs. (So do the Secret Service people, though for security reasons those little things in their ears are called radio receivers...