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...what's an e-patient to do? For starters, don't turn to the Internet in an emergency. If you're experiencing chest pains or a sudden weakness on one side of your body, call an ambulance, not a health portal. Just as important, don't trust anyone who's willing to give you a Web diagnosis without first examining you. That's not only unethical but also usually illegal...
Cranley concedes it will be an uphill battle, as his incumbent opponent has amassed a large war chest--according to Cranley over $500,000--and was capable of easily fending off the past two Democratic challengers...
...parent's worst nightmare--except that few parents could even imagine such a freakish accident. Bursting with exuberance, the Helena, Mont., boy bounced a football off the wall of his room, dove onto his bed to retrieve it and somehow drove a No. 2 pencil through his chest and right into his heart. "I kind of felt it go in," he says, "but it didn't hurt, so I looked down. Then I started yelling, 'Mom! Mom! Mom, I'm gonna...
...level-headed mom, that's just what would have happened. Many parents would have instinctively tried to pull the wooden stiletto from Nathan's chest. But Lorri Earley, a trained nurse, saw the pencil throbbing rhythmically in her son's chest and knew where it had probably lodged. She knew that pulling it out could unleash a torrent of red that would bleed the boy dry in a matter of minutes. "There was no way we'd touch it," she told TIME...
That's not all: If the pencil had taken a slightly different trajectory, it could have destroyed far more of the heart's blood-pumping machinery. And it just missed an artery in Nathan's chest that could have bled enough to send the boy into shock. "As it was," says Williams, "there couldn't have been more than a thimbleful of blood in the pericardium [the membrane surrounding the heart]. He needed no transfusion, which is fairly unusual for a child undergoing heart surgery...