Word: er
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...impoverished Memphis teenager, Singer-Composer Isaac (Hot Buttered Soul, the theme from Shaft) Hayes lived one summer in a junked car. Should the necessity arise again, Hayes, 31, has ensured that he will have all the comforts of-er-home. While seven cars, including his gold-plated 1972 Cadillac Eldorado, rest in his Memphis garages, Hayes tools around the country in his latest acquisition: a 30-ft. silver-gray Cadillac limousine that can be started by remote control in cold weather. Included in the $36,000 price tag: a red velvet love seat, bar, refrigerator, color TV and stereo. Plus...
...late, though, whenever her oth er practice partner begins acting up, Chrissie gives out a girlish squeal, "Oh, Jimmeee!" He is Jimmy Connors, 20, the hottest young U.S. player on the men's pro circuit. They met over a Coke at Wimbledon last year, and it has been a steady match ever since. Though their practice sessions invariably attract a fenceful of admiring fans, they some times end their workouts with some un abashed on-court smooching. An evening date usually consists of a movie and a McDonald's cheeseburger. Recently Chrissie won a major concession from...
...professional emergency-room physician-who is beginning to replace the inexperienced interns, overworked residents or unlicensed foreign doctors still used by most U.S. hospitals to staff their emergency departments. A growing number of hospitals, recognizing the increasing demand for emergency care, are turning to specialists like Clark for ER coverage. As a result, they are providing their patients with far better care-and actually saving money-by increasing the efficiency of their emergency-room operation...
...Joseph Hospital in suburban Burbank, Calif., has hired the four-doctor Burbank Emergency Medical Group to run its emergency department. Four Chicago-area hospitals rely on an eight-year-old organization called Medical Emergency Service Associates (MESA) for their ER coverage. MESA has 40 full-and part-time physicians to assign. Each doctor makes his own financial arrangements with his patients (the average charge is $12), but the fees are paid to MESA, which pays its members by the hour rather than on a fee-for-service arrangement...
None of the new emergency-care corporations seems to have any trouble attracting doctors. Many young physicians welcome the guaranteed salaries, regular hours and scheduled vacations that characterize full-time ER work. Some are even more attracted by the psychic rewards that emergency medicine offers. "I like the type of medicine where the pathology is often critical and what I do is often crucial," says Dr. Ellen Taliaferro, 33, who helped form a group that provides service to hospitals in Santa Monica and Inglewood, Calif. "It makes me feel very good that I make a difference...