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...Andrew and Tayenaka remember the night they forced a local community hospital to admit a man who was gushing blood from a bullet wound to the neck. The sophisticated county trauma centers were closed; a less-equipped emergency room at Downey Community Hospital, six minutes away, was full. The paramedics were ordered to St. Francis Medical Center, twice the distance. They went instead to Downey, and the man survived the night. "I know the situation," said St. Andrew. "I'd pay extra taxes to keep the trauma centers open. I want one available if my kid is hurt...
...black who with a group of friends ventured into the tightly knit, mostly Italian Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn to inspect a used car. They were set upon by a gang of whites armed with baseball bats and a gun. When the melee was over, Hawkins lay dead with two bullet wounds in his chest...
...would have landed in the waiting room. The trauma team dragged him out of the car, raced him into the emergency room, cut off his clothes and tried to use suction equipment to get the blood out of his lungs. A thoracic surgeon was called in to locate the bullet, which had entered his Adam's apple and been deflected into his lung. Hospital officials figured that they would get roughly $71 from the state for treating the patient. The first two hours of his care had already cost...
...patient's bodyguard, an immense personage who kept his hand on a bulging object inside his jacket. He refused to leave when the security guards ordered him out. When they threatened to call the police, the patient climbed off the treatment table and walked out with the bullet still lodged...
...years that Europe has been largely at peace, the Middle East has been plunged into war at least nine times. Europe is living proof that the balance of terror works: with so many weapons of mass destruction in so many arsenals, a single bullet fired in anger could touch off Armageddon. Therefore the guns are silent. The Middle East has had the benefit of no such inhibition: there is too much terror and too little balance...