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...hour after the accident and did not suffer a head injury. There are some injuries for which immediate surgery is an essential part of the process of resuscitation. If patients with injuries such as those Diana suffered were cared for in the same way she was, all would die, when, in fact, rapid surgery could save some of these victims. I shall always have a sense of unease that Diana could have been saved. I hope the French medical community will again look at its protocols for trauma management, which seem at some variance with successful ones used in other...
...chances that anyone will die from an asteroid collision with Earth are close to zero [SPACE, March 23]. Perhaps we should take a look at another threat to countless lives, the nuclear bombs around the world. What would happen if one of those went off? NATHAN S. VAN CUREN Maryville, Tenn...
EQUAL BUT UNEQUAL Even in the military, where living conditions and access to health care are relatively uniform, black women are more likely to die of breast cancer than their white counterparts...
HEART DIFFERENCES Women are more likely to die of a heart attack than men partly because they tend to suffer milder symptoms--shortness of breath and neck aches, vs. the more familiar chest pain--that can delay the trip to the hospital...
...protean variety, his febrile energy (which could have come from his lifelong habit of popping nitroglycerin pills for a dicey heart), his incessant self-celebration and his absolute refusal to believe there was anything finer than to be born an American, unless to die as one in some glorious battle for the flag, the great "Teddy" was as representative of 20th century dynamism as Abraham Lincoln had been of 19th century union and George Washington of 18th century independence...