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...Cross has an ethical responsibility to ensure that the blood it gives to patients is safe. Lives depend on this issue; it is not trivial. If this requires treating some people differently, perhaps even unfairly, it is unfortunate. Yet, it seems to me to be much more important that everyone receiving blood be protected from diseases than that everyone should have an equal chance to donate and feel warm and fuzzy inside. Giving blood isn't exactly a fundamental right. (I double checked the constitution to be sure.) Let's just hope that no one convinces the administration to throw...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Red Cross Not Bigoted | 10/7/1997 | See Source »

...technicians are instructed to look for three things: the patient's feet should be pink, to demonstrate adequate blood pressure; there should be urine output, to indicate that the patient has not lost kidney function; and the surgical drain should be clear, to show no internal bleeding. Surgeons depend on large windows in the operating room to provide adequate light for operations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TOO BIG A HEART | 10/1/1997 | See Source »

Meanwhile, Morton's clinic has become a model for rural health care, reducing hospitalization for the disorders to one-tenth their historic rates. The Amish and Mennonites who use the clinic do not buy medical insurance or subscribe to Medicare, but instead depend on family and community for help. Says Dr. C. Everett Koop, former U.S. Surgeon General: "Holmes Morton has forced his way into the hearts of the Amish people and, based on that trust, has accomplished a remarkable service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A DARK INHERITANCE | 10/1/1997 | See Source »

...company has 12 teams of physicians and ethnobotanists working year-round to establish relationships with native healers in 40 countries throughout Africa, Southeast Asia and South America. Skeptics, most of whom work for competing drug companies, suggest that Shaman cannot depend on primitive healers, who are seen as a cross between country doctors and clerics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MONEY THAT GROWS ON TREES | 10/1/1997 | See Source »

...bitter cold and darkness of a Russian winter, Muscovites depend on Mosenergo, the capital's principal supplier of heat and electricity, to survive. It's a relationship that has also weathered virtually every kind of political storm during the 20th century, and even earlier. "We provided warmth and light under 'our little father the Czar,' and when 'our people' [the communists] came in," says Sergei Rumyantsev, Mosenergo's deputy director general. "Now we do it under the democrats, because they need us as well. We have nothing to do with politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A TOUCH EXOTIC | 9/29/1997 | See Source »

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