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...organization Doctors for Reform. "Here patients have no power," he says. "We want to move away from a Soviet-style, monolithic, nationalized industry that provides very poor value for money." Slevin says the number of managers in the NHS has grown three times faster than medical staff. French anesthesiologist Françoise Iossifidis has seen both sides of the equation, having worked in Britain for 17 years, the last four at University Hospital Lewisham in southeast London. She acknowledges that change has come slowly in Britain, in contrast to the more flexible French system. But she thinks the Continent...
DIED. PETER SAFAR, 79, anesthesiologist known as the father of CPR; of cancer; at his home in Pittsburgh, Pa. A native of Vienna who came to the U.S. for a residency at Yale, he developed the lifesaving technique known as cardiopulmonary resuscitation, a combination of mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and cardiac compression. He also helped set standards for other aspects of emergency care, including the training of technicians, the assembling of intensive-care units and the prevention of brain damage after cardiac arrest...
...happen on health care (or any other issue, for that matter) until he works out a plan to balance the budget, his No. 1 priority. And some Vermonters say even if he does tackle health care, his record on that issue has plenty of shortcomings. Critic Michael Abajian, an anesthesiologist at Central Vermont Medical Center, says Dean paid to cover uninsured Vermonters mainly by underreimbursing doctors for care given to Medicaid patients. "It's so hypocritical to say he wants to provide universal coverage and turn around and not even pay the people who would provide the health care," says...
...year-old girl screamed in agony as the E.R. technician carried her out of the ambulance. Her arms and legs were fractured, her spleen and lungs damaged. Rawand Ratrout, a Palestinian anesthesiologist, inserted intravenous drips into the girl's smoke-blackened arm. She ordered a nurse to inject the patient with a muscle relaxant while the technician, Mohammed Assaly, checked the girl's ventilator, careful not to touch her face, which was burned raw and bloody. "I always imagine what would happen if I were this victim," says Ratrout. In this case, that required more imagination than usual. The young...
...Ayad Jamin, an anesthesiologist, said medical supplies were so low only the worst cases got anesthesia when they were operated on. Less serious cases, like Ziad Mohammed's brother, were simply sent home...