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Some 1.25 million Americans suffer burns every year. Most of them quickly recover, both physically and mentally, with permanent damage limited to a small scar or two. But more than 50,000 burn victims require hospitalization annually, and 5,000 die of their injuries...
...deal with the many consequences of severe burns, a growing number of major hospitals have established burn centers, staffed by the medical equivalent of police swat teams, that accommodate every need of critically injured burn victims. America's busiest burn unit is at Manhattan's New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center and consists of some 100 doctors, nurses, therapists, social workers and dieticians who treat 1,300 patients a year in the unit's 46-bed facility. "The name of the game in burns is teamwork," says Dr. Roger Yurt, the unit's director since...
...loss drug. Because fenfluramine acts on both serotonin and dopamine, it has the unfortunate side effect of putting its users to sleep. That is why doctors came up with fen/phen; the "phen" (phentermine) is an amphetamine-like drug that wakes the patient up again and boosts the metabolism to burn calories faster. Wurtman separated fenfluramine into its two component chemicals, levofenfluramine and dexfenfluramine. The latter has revealed itself to be a powerful weight-loss medication. He patented the drug for M.I.T., founded a company called Interneuron Pharmaceuticals to manufacture it under license to Wyeth-Ayerst and began moving the drug...
However, first-years shouldn't expect to be let off so easily if they burn down Weld...
...surfers camp, the rainbow camp--and then standing before the terrible heat of the very big fire of the neon-lit man, the answer is not any easier to articulate. Harvey, in the sly coyote logic of a true desert mystic, puts it this way: "If we didn't burn it, we wouldn't be able to burn it again next year...