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...affiliate that houses the city's only trauma center and where, on one recent night, 18 of the emergency department's 23 beds were occupied by mental health patients. "These patients are still getting their medical evaluations in a routine emergency department. But then they are left there," says Cathi Fontenot, the hospital's medical director. "Emergency departments are not quiet areas of relaxation, especially in a trauma center like ours, where we have gunshot wounds and ambulances and patients being wheeled in and out. It is not a great environment to try to de-escalate mental health patients...
...health benefits. Thirty-nine percent of companies offer no medical benefits, up from 31% in 2000. About 60% of companies say they expect coverage to decrease. So it's not surprising that 80% of Americans polled say the system is broken. "Really all humanity has been stripped out," says Cathi Shaefer, a grocery clerk for the supermarket giant Safeway in Upland, Calif. "The care of people is getting a lot less attention than numbers...
...endure "is the central story of our generation." And the women who are enduring it seem compelled to tell their stories without leaving out the gory bits. In The Bitch in the House (Morrow), a forthcoming collection of women's tales of love, work and other burdens edited by Cathi Hanauer, the seven essays devoted to motherhood are assembled under the subtitle "Mommy Maddest." Then there's I'll Never Have Sex with You Again (Fireside), a That's Incredible!-style compilation of labor and delivery stories from B-list celebrities like Melissa Rivers and Peggy Noonan as well...
...August 29, Morrow will publish "The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth About Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood and Marriage," edited by Cathi Hanauer. The 26 bitches who have written original essays include Ellen Gilchrist, Hope Edelman, Pam Houston, Daphne Merkin, former TIME writer Natalie Angier, Vivian Gornick, Jill Bialosky, Helen Schulman, Chitra Divakaruni, Karen Karbo, Kate Christensen, Elissa Schappell, Veronica Chambers and Susan Squire. According to the publisher, "These essays are the culmination of the lessons of the past two decades - the 'me' years, the therapy years, the years that have taught women to express themselves, feel...
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