Word: accesses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...heart rate, respiration, blood volume and pressure will be monitored regularly. Doctors on Earth want to analyze his blood for immune function and protein levels, and this will require taking so many samples that throughout the flight, Glenn will wear a catheter implanted in his arm, allowing easy access to a vein without a new needle stick each time. He will wear a suit wired with sensors to measure his sleep cycles and will swallow a horse-pill-size thermometer that will take temperature readings as it passes through his body...
...surprisingly, some of medicine's most enthusiastic e-mailers work at universities and teaching hospitals, where both doctors and patients have easy access to communications software and the technical support that allows it to run smoothly. But some managed-care organizations are promoting it as well. "I believe we're looking at something that will become a standard of service in the healthcare industry," says Dr. Joseph Scherger, chair of the Department of Family Medicine at the University of California, Irvine College of Medicine, who estimates that e-mail has cut his telephone use by two-thirds. "It's really...
...before you send. One reason why a lot of doctors have not installed e-mail on their office computers is that they fear being overwhelmed with messages. (Which they will be, unless they set ground rules, and their patients cooperate.) So if you're lucky enough to have direct access to your physician via computer, don't abuse the privilege--or we could all wind up playing telephone tag forever...
...adequately understanding the aid efforts of the U.S. government. Let there be no mistake: this famine was caused by protracted civil war and human-rights abuses by the Sudanese government, including support for scorched-earth militia raids in the famine zones, the bombing of relief centers and denial of access to relief supplies. These abuses have made the relief efforts in the country more difficult and dangerous. Last fall there was no possible way to predict the series of events that led to this tragic famine. USAID is the world's largest donor to relief efforts in Sudan, providing more...
When did you last make it through a day without wanting to choke one of the following: a cabbie, a telemarketer, the idiot driver in the next lane, the repairman who showed up three hours late, the people who control Internet access, all airline executives, a meter maid, some insipid bureaucrat, one of Larry King's guests or King himself...