Word: alarmingly
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...Frederiksberg University Hospital in Copenhagen, there are no clipboards. Instead, doctors and nurses carry wireless handheld computers to call up the medical records of each patient, including their prescription history and drug allergies. If a doctor prescribes a medication that may cause complications, the PDA's alarm goes off. In the hospital's department of acute medicine - where patients often arrive unconscious or disorientated - department head Klaus Phanareth's PDA prevents him from prescribing dangerous medications "on a weekly basis," he says. "There's no doubt that it saves lives...
...good news is that unlike earthquakes, volcanoes give warning signs--gaseous and seismic--before erupting. Still, volcanology is not an exact science, and evacuation plans are never simple. The fear of sounding a false alarm of a major eruption--which would force an unnecessary evacuation of half a million people for weeks--is right behind the fear of not forcing people to flee when the big one hits, explains Franco Barberi, a top volcanologist and the head of the National Commission on Major Risks. "You need to distinguish risks," says Barberi, noting that a full evacuation would probably take three...
...FlyBy guesses The World's Thinking whether Harvard really needs to be paying for the trademark "Pocket Mentor" with more professors leaving the Faculty than joining it, sections growing larger, and professors raising the alarm that departments may get consolidated as a result of Dean Smith's call to "reshape...
...confirmed “swine flu” cases at Cambridge’s King Open School have not caused sufficient alarm to temporarily close the building, even as a multitude of suspected flu cases led city officials to close Boston Latin School, less than five miles away, for one week. The two cases of swine flu—known officially as the H1N1 virus—were confirmed last Friday, according to Justin T. Martin, a spokesman for the Cambridge Public Schools. He added that four students at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School—the city?...
...just thought someone pulled the alarm,” Little said. “But as we filed out of the doors, we saw the smoke coming out of the roof and realized it was real...