Word: lungingly
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...next to Lekior's in intensive care, Steve Averbach, a victim of an earlier bus bombing, on May 18, watches Seinfeld on a portable television through eyes barely open. Seven people died in that blast, which left Averbach with a spinal-cord injury and lung damage. One of the nurses who cared for him was Naela Haeik, who was born in an Arab village in Israel's Galilee region. She recalls that after surgeons operated on Averbach's spine, she spent four hours settling him into his bed. She hooked the 37-year-old father of four onto a cardiac...
...persuaded their original carrier to give them an extension--which expired at the end of last week. What next? Will they change specialties? Will they change addresses to a less litigious state? And what of their 6,000 patients, who would have to drive an hour to the nearest lung specialist, in Chicago? "We doctors can move on," says Sosenko, tilting back in his office chair. "But our patients...
...fled a displaced-persons camp in Germany after World War II, Sosenko grew up in Joliet watching his father, Roman, serve the town as a family doctor. He wanted to do the same for his friends and neighbors, treating people suffering from diseases such as asthma, bronchitis, emphysema and lung cancer...
...only capable but also unusually attentive. Phone calls are promptly returned, day or night, and doctors make house calls when necessary. "It's such a relief, just knowing he's here," says Pat Falkenberg, 48, a patient of Sosenko's who is battling pulmonary fibrosis and awaiting a lung transplant. During a stay in the hospital, Falkenberg says, Sosenko stopped by her room so many times that she "often wondered if he ever went home...
...That destination is the World Heritage-demarcated Umphang Wildlife Sanctuary and the Thung Yai Naresuan Wildlife Sanctuary, which comprise an area of surpassing beauty and, until recently, myriad dangers. And that ailing man, Dr. Boonma Kanthakat, is my 72-year-old father-in-law, who is terminally ill with lung cancer...