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...Debi Lane's nightmare began last November with a routine thyroid test. When she returned for the results the next day, doctors at the Desert Samaritan Hospital in Mesa, Ariz., had chilling news. "There's been a terrible mistake," they told the 41-year-old mother of four. "Basically, we've killed your thyroid...
Instead of a small dose of mildly radioactive iodine, Lane had been treated with a megadose of radiation normally given to patients with thyroid cancer. She spent four days in a hospital isolation ward while her home was scrubbed down. Doctors say she has already contaminated her children...
Hospital officials insist that the misadministered dose was simply human error. They are seeking to have a $14,000 fine reduced or even dismissed. Lane, whose chances of developing cancer could increase more than 4% every year, is fearful about the future. "What if my health insurance gets canceled?" she asks. "What about ((my children's)) college? It looks like I'm not going to be here for them...
...restricted to kings and dictators. But it is in a way the ideal instrument of freedom -- inclusive, unjudging, versatile, electronic but old-fashioned (here so long no one really fears it). The telephone, like democracy, is infinitely tolerant of stupidity; it is a virtual medium of stupidity, a four-lane highway of the greedy and false and brainless. But it is (unless tampered with) a faithful channel of words from mouth to distant ear, mind to mind, and that is, absolutely and exactly, the meaning of freedom...
Hernandez said that Lane's report and comments made by officers in a later hearing contained false accusations which he said were racially motivated. At the hearing, officers "made false statements against Davis, claiming that on at least three occasions since 1982 complaints of sexual harrassment had been sustained against Davis which hadn't actually occurred," he said...