Word: kim
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Todd's wife Kim, along with his parents, followed him to Durham, where they all checked into a double room at the Brookwood Inn, about 500 yds. from the Duke Hospital entrance. On Friday, a biopsy revealed that Todd was deteriorating fast, headed toward "fulminant hepatic failure." Without a new liver soon, he would die. The family was in no mood to learn, as they did that afternoon from Trotter, that PHP wanted Todd moved to a hospital where it had a capitation contract limiting their financial exposure. Trotter would not tell Kim exactly where they wanted...
...Kim Hunter, meanwhile, is desperate. Her attempts to reach Brown at PHP on Friday were thwarted, she says, by a full voice-mail queue. She wants her husband to stay at Duke under the care of Drs. Trotter and Tuttle, whom she trusts. When a woman at PHP she believes was Brown finally returned her call Tuesday afternoon on the pay phone near the surgery ward, her message to Kim was that PHP "had a deal" with Duke that if it hadn't transplanted Todd over the weekend, it would move him to unc. "It felt like they were trying...
After a break, in which she consumes her standard post-op refreshment--grape juice mixed with Fresca--Tuttle walks down a flight of stairs and into the dimly lit and nearly deserted waiting room. "I know you're exhausted," she tells a pale Kim Hunter. "He's doing fine. The new liver is in, and the old one is out. He's been stable the whole time. We have two more hookups to go." She hugs Kim, who tells the doctor, "I ain't leaving. Thank...
SUNDAY 11:45 A.M. Kim Hunter is back at her husband's side in surgical ICU. He is earnestly retelling the story of his encounter with an angel, which Tuttle has heard. "Sometimes this immunosuppression stuff makes you wacko," she confides, then adds quickly, "but some of this is interesting...
...People are elected, it's not really fair to them, if there's a reelection and they lose," Kim said...