Word: auckland
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...flung settings of the book are straightforward. A suburb of Auckland, N.Z., is dominated by a North American-style shopping mall called Heaven-field-"a huge windowless pretence, as much an insinuation of Elsewhere as its own name or that of the city or the restaurant, Manhattan, as its entrance." Baltimore, Md., death place of Edgar Allan Poe, is recognizable, with its gray asphalt, red brick and black iron gratings, as are the affluent hills of Berkeley. "passing through a 'wilderness' phase where it was fashionable to let meadow grass and herbs grow as they pleased...
...past 18 months, Susan Foss has been paralyzed from the neck down with a spinal tumor. Anywhere else in the world, the pretty, 20-year-old Auckland, New Zealand, housewife would probably be confined to a hospital for the rest of her life. Yet, except for a few hours each day when she undergoes physical and occupational therapy at a nearby hospital, Susan spends all her time at home. Her routine needs are met either by her husband Chris or by a nurse and a home aide who regularly visit the Foss household...
...people who are participating in an extraordinary program of outpatient hospital care. Begun in 1960 to cut rising costs of New Zealand's largely free, womb-to-tomb national health system, the scheme has kept expenses at about 500 a day for each extramural patient in the greater Auckland area (pop. 800,000), compared with the average $41 daily price tag for in-patient care. It has also saved at least 3,000 additional hospital beds, while at the same time making life more bearable for tens of thousands of patients...
...Auckland's "hospital without walls" is aimed not so much at eliminating hospitalization as at shortening it. Barring unforeseen complications, patients who have undergone gall-bladder operations, for example, are sent home only five days after surgery-compared with a typical ten-day hospital stay in the U.S. For these Auckland patients, however, hospital care continues at home. Nurses pay them regular visits. Family members are trained to meet their special needs. Patients may even borrow hospital equipment. It may be an everyday item like a bedpan or cane-or more complicated gear: a respirator, wheelchair or even...
Died. Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park, 82, commander of the Royal Air Force fighter group that fought off the German blitz on London in the summer of 1940; in Auckland, New Zealand. After the Battle of Britain, Park successfully defended Malta, then moved on to the Middle East and Southeast Asia, where he commanded the Allied air forces...