Word: lungful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...critical-care and lung specialist in a small community-based hospital, I am frequently confounded by the decisions made by faceless HMO administrators who tell me how to take care of a person they have never seen. The most important "contract" in medicine is, and always will be, between the physician and the patient and his or her family. Until Congress completes the work of protecting patients' rights, health care will continue to take second place to the financial health of the insurers and HMOs. GARY R. SCHAFER, M.D. Rutherfordton...
HOLLYWOOD, Fla.-Joe DiMaggio will be hospitalized for three more weeks with pneumonia and a lung infection even though his lawyer said yesterday he had improved from earlier this month when "we were fearful for his life...
Reiner expects to spend $6.3 million on Prop 10, including $1.1 million of his own. Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop has taped a TV spot. Groups including the American Lung Association and the California Medical Association have contributed funds and organizers. Hollywood heavies from Steven Spielberg to Robin Williams have given money; and Hillary Clinton has agreed to attend an L.A. fund raiser. "Prop 10 would utterly transform the well-being of small children across the state," says Peter Digre, director of the L.A. County Department of Child Welfare Services...
DIED. MARK BELANGER, 54, premier fielding shortstop of the 1970s who was a nimble barricade that no ball could pass; of lung cancer; in New York City. Nicknamed Blade, Belanger won eight Gold Gloves in 16 seasons with the Baltimore Orioles...
...walks away red-eyed, talking about empathy. Women in distress are especially troubling to him. His mother was found to have lung cancer in 1984 and got radiation treatments. When the disease returned in 1988, "when it was hopeless," she fled back to the Southern Baptist roots of her childhood. The hellfire sermons and finger-pointing bothered the 15-year-old Michael, but he felt they might be worth it if God cured her. One morning, "at about 2:45," her coughing was loud enough to wake him. His father told him "it was nothing"--that he would just take...