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...just close their doors to poor people," says Virginia Price-Hastings, director of Los Angeles' trauma hospital programs. "When they're closed, they're closed to everyone." Furthermore, if hospital beds are filled with emergency patients, doctors cannot schedule elective surgeries like breast biopsies, gallbladder removals and cardiac bypasses. Delay a bypass too long, and it can turn into a heart attack -- which brings the patient back to the crowded emergency room...
...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 too busy, one homeless woman who was transferred...
...students who needed a quiet place to study at night. And nowadays he goes to heroic efforts to keep in close touch with kids he got to know. Dan Porterfield, an ex-pupil, recalls that in 1983, when Healy had a heart attack followed by a triple-bypass operation, he and a friend drove to New York to visit him. Over a nurse's protest, Healy asked to see them briefly. He was in a welter of tubes and looked ashen. "I felt that even then he was teaching us," says Porterfield, "trying to show us how to cope...
...choose between having a more rewarding academic experience and possibly having a higher GPA, and in retrospect, I do not regret having risked my GPA. As a first-year student, I opted for Advanced Standing. During my sophomore year, I chose to take Government 1061, an upperlevel bypass taught by the notorious Thompson Professor of Government Harvey C. ("C-") Mansfield and Professor of Government Michael Sandel, rather than the dismally rated Government...
...Ashkenazic Jews for most of the past millennium. In this century the language had already suffered the cataclysm of the Holocaust as well as the adoption of English by most North American Jews, the suppression of Jewish culture in the Soviet Union, and the decision by Israel to bypass Yiddish and give Hebrew the status of a national language. Lansky, who in 1979 was a graduate student in Yiddish literature at McGill University in Montreal, realized that more was at stake than the survival of the language as a spoken tongue. A native English speaker who was raised...