Word: harborview
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years as a helicopter pilot in the Alaskan bush, but his luck ran out when a sudden gust of wind caught his chopper near Juneau, causing it to crash in flames. Nearly three-quarters of his body surface was charred, and doctors at Seattle's Harborview Hospital burn center had serious doubts that he would survive. Yet, after 30 long months of treatment, including ten operations just to reconstruct his burned hands, Charlie is back in Alaska piloting helicopters...
...however, it is becoming medically respectable; more and more physicians are studying it as a possibly practical method of avoiding the legal and physical hardships of abortions done later in pregnancy. Dr. Julius Butler of the Harborview Medical Center in Seattle has performed nearly 100 extractions in the past several months, as has Dr. Edward Stim in New York. The procedure is also being done at Los Angeles County Harbor General Hospital in Torrance, Calif., and at several abortion facilities in New York...