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...small, darkened room filled with computer screens and telephone switchboards, Dr. Robert Baron listens intently as a 33-year-old man's medical symptoms are described. The man, who had briefly passed out, is in severe pain from his kidney area and is getting oxygen. The doctor sits across the hall from the emergency room at the Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center in Phoenix, Ariz., but his patient is a little farther away: on an airplane 30,000 ft. over the Middle East. Yet within minutes, Baron has diagnosed a kidney stone, suggested preliminary treatment and arranged for medical personnel...
According to MedLink, which is a 24hour operation, the most common onboard ailments are fainting, stomach upsets and respiratory problems. Some of the doctors' most important work, though, is building a crew's confidence. "Dealing with a patient at a distance isn't usually the problem," says Baron. "It's convincing the crew the passenger who isn't doing well isn't actually going...
...opium production. Yes indeed, as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld put it with unaccustomed understatement, "Democracy is untidy." Tragically, Americans, Afghans and the rest of the world are paying the price for the untidiness that we have wrought. Might there have been a better way? Robert G. Newman, M.D. Director Baron Edmond de Rothschild Chemical Dependency Institute Beth Israel Medical Center New York City...
...history lesson for other Asian cities repainting their faces for the world. The park is the brainchild of Yoshiro Taniguchi and Moto-o Tsuchikawa, a Tokyoite who lamented the relentless modernization of his native city as it prepared to host the 1964 Olympics. Here's hoping a baron in Beijing feels the same about the Chinese capital's fast-disappearing architectural gems...
...opium production. Yes indeed, as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld put it with unaccustomed understatement: "Democracy is untidy." Tragically, Americans, Afghans and the rest of the world are paying the price for the untidiness that we have wrought. Might there have been a better way? ROBERT G. NEWMAN, M.D., DIRECTOR BARON EDMOND DE ROTHSCHILD CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY INSTITUTE BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER New York City...