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...double room at the Brookwood Inn, about 500 yds. from the Duke Hospital entrance. On Friday, a biopsy revealed that Todd was deteriorating fast, headed toward "fulminant hepatic failure." Without a new liver soon, he would die. The family was in no mood to learn, as they did that afternoon from Trotter, that PHP wanted Todd moved to a hospital where it had a capitation contract limiting their financial exposure. Trotter would not tell Kim exactly where they wanted him to go, but it was the University of Alabama Medical Center, approximately 600 miles away...
...reach Brown at PHP on Friday were thwarted, she says, by a full voice-mail queue. She wants her husband to stay at Duke under the care of Drs. Trotter and Tuttle, whom she trusts. When a woman at PHP she believes was Brown finally returned her call Tuesday afternoon on the pay phone near the surgery ward, her message to Kim was that PHP "had a deal" with Duke that if it hadn't transplanted Todd over the weekend, it would move him to unc. "It felt like they were trying to make me doubt the doctors," says...
...This afternoon the kids in the pediatric isolation ward have come together for something called Cell Mates. Most are bald and towing IV trees behind them as they gather. In Cell Mates they play games that help them come to terms with their diseases--with the blood cells that are failing them, the cancers and immune deficiencies that are attacking them, and the new replacement cells that are helping them. Many of the kids, like Caroline Strother, 6, are old hands at medical games. She swabs her doll's arm and prepares to insert a central line, but asks...
...protest march started yesterday afternoon at 5 p.m. in front of the home. About 70 people, mostly local residents and former employees, joined the march. The marchers said they were worried that quality of care at the home has suffered since the strike began...
...YORK: Bloodied and bowed but hopefully bottomed-out, tech stocks got a reprieve Friday as traders went bargain-hunting amid the ruins of NASDAQ's week. The index was up 44 points in early afternoon after four-day losses of 200 points, or more that 12 percent. "It's a bounce-back from a horrible week," says FORTUNE writer Nelson Schwartz. "A lot of the earnings reports that came out of the sector were overly optimistic. But even so, a lot of people on the floor were surprised at the amount of hemorrhaging that went...