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...Wall. She will also e-mail or phone it to Buddhist monks in Nepal, a Carmelite convent near Baltimore, an interdenominational Christian prayer center in Missouri and several other congregations--all of which will entrust it further to some Higher Force. Only when the requests have gone out will Dr. Mitchell Krucoff insert a catheter, and eventually several buttressing stents (small mesh devices to prop open the vessel), into Stephens' coronary artery...
...MUSC, Hunter became a patient of Dr. Adrian Rubin, who agreed with the Greenville doctor that Hunter needed a new liver but who also recognized that insurance was very much a factor. Rubin consulted with the hospital's financial staff, which confirmed that MUSC did not have a liver-transplant contract with Hunter's carrier, Physician's Health Plan. But, Rubin was told, Duke, where he knew the liver people, did have a PHP contract. So the physician recommended that Hunter go there. Rubin placed a call to Duke hepatologist James Trotter, explaining that he had a seriously ill transplant...
...that does have a liver-transplant contract with Duke. "It's an alphabet soup out there," complains Karyn Bowie, director of managed care at MUSC. "The complexity of the system and how rapidly it changes from one day to the next make the job very tough," says MUSC's Dr. Rubin...
...Saturday, Hunter slipped into a coma. Dr. Tuttle upgraded him to highest-priority status and put out a call through the organ-transplant network for a liver. Labor Day weekend, normally a period offering a bumper crop of organs because of holiday traffic deaths, came and went without a prospect. TUESDAY 10:00 A.M. Todd remains in a coma, his liver shot, his skin yellow to his toes. Retribution is in the air midmorning when Brown reaches Trotter, demanding to know why Hunter is not at UNC. Their conversation is "spirited," according to Trotter, "emotionally charged," according...
...award for literature went to Dr. MaraSidoli of Washington, D.C., for her report,"Farting as a Defense Against Unspeakable Dread,"published in the Journal of Analytical Psychology...