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Well, Rikke Clausen does. In fact, she constantly uses the PC built into her fridge. Clausen, 34, is on a break from her job at the Girl Guides to care for her two young sons. In her home, the kitchen, dining area and living room all merge seamlessly into a whole: one corner serves as the boys' playroom. In this setting, the Screenfridge makes perfect sense. "I can surf the Net, cook and keep an eye on my children at the same time," says Clausen. "If I had to use the family computer, I'd have to go into...
Hospice can also have more practical benefits. "We discuss whether they need a homemaker to wash dishes or read to the patient so his wife can get out because she's exhausted," says Margaret Clausen, president of the California Hospice Foundation. On average, hospice patients receive at least three hours a day more attention than nursing-home patients. And hospice is cheaper than traditional care. For example, at Balm of Gilead Center, a hospice in Birmingham, Ala., the average cost per patient per day is $720, in contrast to $3,180 for ICU patients...
...hospice, which well-meaning clergy members imported to this country from Britain in the 1970s, ministers to only 17% of dying Americans. "The word hospice has toxic connotations," says Clausen. That's partly because Medicare starts a fatal clock ticking on hospice patients: it will reimburse for hospice only after two doctors certify that a patient has less than six months to live. But many doctors are reluctant to do so, especially for unpredictable diseases like heart failure. Some physicians also fear regulatory scrutiny, since the U.S. Health Care Financing Administration has actually ordered investigations of hospice patients who live...
...lawyers and the media would stop offering these women interviews, instant fame, money and book deals, maybe we could put an end to this and restore dignity to the White House. MARJORIE A. CLAUSEN Santa Barbara, Calif...
...THAT THE SMITH TRIAL IS OVER, I can't help wondering what the sentence would have been if Smith's original accusations had been true and a black man had been caught, tried and convicted of the crime. MARJORIE CLAUSEN Santa Barbara, California...