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...both doctors and patients with the escalating costs, inefficiency and indifferent service of hospitals. "Hospitals dropped the ball," asserts Los Angeles Plastic Surgeon Robert Kotler. "Our patients complained about the bills and lack of service. We doctors complained because they couldn't provide us with specialized personnel and forgot about personal attention." Frustrated doctors began to set up operating rooms in their own offices. The more enterprising put their resources together to create independent surgical centers. Such centers, which are licensed by individual states, have generally established records of good service. Indeed, most have lower rates of post-operative...
Aberrations such as these mark the onset of Alzheimer's disease (AD), the insidious and heart-breaking malady of advancing age. The memory lapses, confusion and dementia inevitably get worse. The intelligent and athletic Mrs. Holmes, now 65, forgot how to cook: she set a chicken ablaze by trying to roast it over all four burners of her stove. She also forgot how to play tennis and ultimately she had trouble recognizing her friends. Once an active Y.M.C.A. employee, Tony Marzillo, 61, gradually lost all ability to care for himself, becoming incontinent, unruly and destructive. "It was like chasing...
...They grew up, or at least aged, to become successful film makers: John Landis with National Lampoon's Animal House, Joe Dante with The Howling, George Miller with The Road Warrior and Steven Spielberg with half of the megahit movies of the past eight years. But they never forgot The Twilight Zone. In Steven Spielberg's E.T., one teen-ager hypes the spookiness by singing Marius Constant's ding-ding-ding-ding theme from the TV show; and Spielberg's Poltergeist is an updating of a Twilight Zone episode. Now this quartet has concocted a four...
Dempsey never contested either loss to Tunney, a wonderful boxer but a colorless fighter whose unforgivable sins were that he read books and beat Dempsey. "Honey, I forgot to duck," Dempsey told his wife after the first fight, a line President Reagan found use for 55 years later. When Tunney died in 1978 at the age of 80, Dempsey said, "Now I feel alone...
After the Prime Minister had arrived. Cambridge City Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci decided to send Fraser a present, and he sent a messenger over with the package. Quite unintentionally, the Wadsworth office forgot the gift was coming, so that when the gift-bearer arrived holdings a non-descript package and asked to see Fraser, the secret service men hired for the Prime Minister jumped at the innocent deliveryman and tore open the package before it reached the head of state...