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...prognosis. But the documentary shows the specialists as anxious, overworked and bored as any grunt. One night they repair to the roof of the hospital to smoke cigars and look over the rooftops of Baghdad, spotting explosions a few miles away. "We just see the consequences," says one doctor. Another says, "There's one with your name written all over...
...Those are small flaws in an otherwise remarkable view of the medical battles in Iraq. One of my favorite scenes shows a doctor out for a walk in the Green Zone, the protected area where the U.S. government and military is headquartered and the hospital lies. "The thing I miss most is to go more than a half a mile in either direction," he said. "That's our world in Baghdad." After more than three years of war, the statement could be taken many ways...
There are plenty of reasons people might accept that the government could have a record of every time they call their mother, their doctor or their paramour. Maybe 9/11 put security above all the country's other values. Maybe, as the reality-television craze suggests, most citizens don't cherish privacy as much as civil libertarians do. Or maybe Americans figure that if Verizon and Ma Bell can keep track of whom they call--and that, in exchange for a discount card, Safeway gets to compile a database of what they eat and Barnes & Noble of what they read--there...
What Scares Doctors? Being the Patient Hospitalization too often means insufficient time with the doctor, errors in treatment and a big bill that adds insult to injury. Weighing in with tales of botched operations and battles for reimbursement, patients and caregivers alike offered their prescriptions for healing an ailing system too focused on the bottom line...
What really ought to scare doctors, administrators, insurance executives and the general public is that there are so few nurses to protect them. Everyone points to money as the problem, but most nurses will tell you that it was a general decline in their perceived value as caregivers that began the descent into the system we have today. If you want to have a physician who can take good care of you, you need nurses who will share that duty and keep that doctor informed. JODY NICHOLS, R.N. San Marino, Calif...