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Fighting hard to keep it alive are some 110,000 doctors and nurses, plus technicians, social workers and paramedics, employed by roughly 5,700 emergency departments nationwide. Last year they treated 90 million patients for everything from hangnails to heart attacks. In the busiest hospitals, emergency-room personnel minister to an average of 200 patients in a single, brutal twelve-hour shift, while stretchers stack up in the waiting rooms, hallways and even closets. Staffers eat large meals before going on duty, since there will be no breaks once they start. They treat wounds they hoped never to see outside...
...cities like New York, Chicago and Los Angeles that are suffering a meltdown. During the busiest periods, paramedics talk of "medical gridlock." They cannot even unload their ambulances because the emergency room is full, and the emergency room cannot open because every last bed in the hospital is taken. At this point the hospital may go on "bypass" and ask that ambulances be sent elsewhere. But many hospitals that used to go on bypass once or twice a year now do so every week. In California emergency rooms open and shut like tollgates depending on the traffic. Because surgeons were...
...popular cafe that serves white coffee with a whipped raw egg to help ward off the pervasive dampness of the rainy season. Around the corner on Hang Gai Street, shoppers wander past privately owned clothing and novelty shops that are little more than window fronts. Nevertheless, they are the busiest stores in Hanoi. One of them is owned by Dao Thi Huan, 71, a retired government worker. For her, life is much better than it was even five years ago, though she feels that living standards are still low. The long war is a receding memory. "In the past...
April is the busiest month of the year for University tour guides, as throngs of recently-admitted prefrosh join the usual tourist crowd to get a glimpse of the college where they might--or might not--decide to spend their next four years...
This sort of peaceful ride is only a precursor for the evening's busiest run, which leaves Wellesley's Founders...