Word: ills
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...BELIEVE FOR A MINUTE THE FInancial gain realized by prolonging life in the terminally ill plays a conscious role in the care-giving process. However, given the fact that there are so many dollars at stake and that the Establishment must have funds to continue all aspects of the practice of medicine, I often wonder if there is a subconscious "agent" at work. The study done by the Journal of the American Medical Association does nothing to allay my fears in this regard. TOM MARTIN La Grange, Illinois...
...APOLLO 13 Director Ron Howard and protean star Tom Hanks celebrate the virtues of community--ingenuity, patience, humor--with such fidelity and drama that the ill-fated 1970 moon shot becomes a triumph for Hollywood on its best behavior...
Donna Guyton's experience bears this out. Her son Patrick, 9, has viral encephalitis and a seizure disorder. When he got an ear infection, her health plan refused to authorize the medicine he needed, but the cheaper medication aggravated his seizure disorder. Eventually, he got seriously ill and had to receive intravenous antibiotics. "What really aggravated me," says Guyton, "was that the [plan's] own physician said this is what Patrick needed, but then they wouldn't approve...
...peace pact is supposed to put a stop to ethnic cleansing, but the practice continued a week after the signing, when 93 ill and elderly Muslims in the Serb-held Banja Luka region were driven into Bosnian government--held territory. Last week they were joined by up to 250 more victims. These Muslims were expelled by Serbs who had earlier been ethnically cleansed from Muslim-held territory. The Serbs were resettled around Banja Luka and proceeded, as a U.N. official puts it, to "kick out their hosts." Right now Bosnian Croats are also getting in some last licks, despite...
...that although toilet trained, she had begun to urinate and defecate uncontrollably and that there were cuts and bruises on her vagina. In 1992 Izquierdo petitioned the family court to deny Awilda custodial rights, but fate intervened before the court could act on his request. By late 1993, already ill with cancer, he was planning to take Elisa to Cuba, and perhaps hoping to leave her there permanently. Tickets were bought, but he became too ill to travel, and on May 26 Izquierdo died...