Word: martin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...person who gave me faith in the democratic process as a place where we could implement progressive change," said Martin F. Brennan, Duehay's campaign manager in the 1989 election...
...Kolb, 7, needed minor ear surgery, and his doctors at Martin Memorial Medical Center in Stuart, Fla., began by injecting him with lidocaine, a local anesthetic. Except that it wasn't lidocaine; it was adrenaline, a powerful stimulant. A minute later Ben's blood pressure soared, and his heart began to race. Nine minutes later his blood pressure plunged, his heart rate dropped, his lungs filled with fluid, and he went into cardiac arrest. Within hours, Ben Kolb was dead...
Many hospitals are so concerned with cutting down on preventable errors, though, that they are ignoring the risk of malpractice claims and doggedly rooting out their mistakes. Even in the hours before Ben Kolb died, for example, Martin Memorial hospital's risk-management director Doni Haas had launched an investigation, sealing off the operating room and seizing the syringes, instruments and medications used in the procedure. She could do this without being obstructed, she says, because the hospital staff was focused on finding the cause of the problem and preventing such a thing from happening again...
According to UTEP Director Lissa Hodder, the Harvard undergraduates currently student teaching--in schools ranging from Martin Luther King Open Middle School to Watertown High School--handle their dual roles of student and teacher with ease. They write theses, apply for fellowships and manage the normal senior year stress...
...Allens most complex film has a dual plotline, with a comic strand about a filmmaker (Allen) intertwining with the story of a married man (Martin Landau) undergoing an affair and a crisis of faith. Landaus performance is a standout, and the merging of the two stories in the films final scene is both daring and entirely successful...