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...tablets and tried to fall back asleep. But when the tightness in her chest turned to pain, she took a cab to the hospital. There doctors told her that she had suffered a heart attack and that four of her coronary arteries were blocked, and she had to undergo bypass surgery. Two years later McCamey, now 64, remembers her bewilderment over the incident. "I was really shocked," she says. "I thought it was mostly men who suffered heart attacks...
...would like to think that we treat everybody equally," she says. But her survey of medical literature tells her otherwise. "Women don't get thrombolytic therapy (blood-clot dissolvers like streptokinase) as often as men, they don't get coronary angiography or angioplasty, and they don't get bypass surgery as often...
Heparin neutralization is required in nearly all of the cardiopulmonary bypass procedures performed each year...
...acutely ironic to realize that formerly communist Russia has already adopted full educational choice, effectively dismantling the failed monolith of bureaucratic public education. Beginning January 1, Russian parents will be completely reimbursed for sending their children to private schools, thereby allowing families to bypass the incompetent state-controlled educational factory. Monday's Wall Street Journal aptly notes that "a parent in Moscow will have more freedom to select a good school than most parents in America." This prospect is extremely embarassing...
...Anderson, 64, had part of a cancerous lung removed two years ago at Massachusetts General without benefit of a PCA. More recently, she recovered from additional lung surgery with the device. "There is no comparison," she says. Carr notes that five years ago, a patient who had an aortic bypass would be unable to move the next day. Now, with PCAs, "a lot of them are sitting up doing the crossword puzzle," he says. "The old way was barbaric...