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When Cheney entered the hospital last Saturday just after 8 a.m., doctors gave him a mild sedative, then threaded a wire through one of the veins in his right leg up to his heart. By sending different electrical pulses through the wire, the physicians succeeded in re-creating the irregular heartbeats that were picked up by the Holter monitor. Then they figured out where to place the lead wires from the ICD to ensure that it would deliver the correct voltage to the appropriate spots on the heart whenever the heart needed to resume a normal beat...
...Pinochet, 85, who ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990, is suffering from a host of ailments, ranging from high blood pressure and diabetes to arthritis. He has had three mild strokes in as many years and has a pacemaker; last week, he spent six days in the hospital, where he received treatment for high blood pressure...
...Drainage” is really synonymous with “massive, long-term bleeding from the nose that doesn’t stop ever.” Not so fun. In fact, the “mild drainage” is so not-mild that it requires an ever-attractive Mustache Bandage, which needs to be changed at least every hour for a couple days...
...miffed that the zoo underestimated the lizard, and that it later made hay of her husband PHIL BRONSTEIN's misfortune. She aired her complaints in a postmortem on the incident with TIME's Jess Cagle. "The zookeeper said, 'Would you like to go in the cage? It's very mild mannered. Kids pet him,'" Stone says. "So Phil gets in the cage, and I took a picture. The zookeeper said, 'Come around so she can get a better picture,' and as he started to move, this thing just lunged at him." After a horrified moment of silence, everyone heard...
...jump on the Democrats in their chamber with a patients rights bill weren't getting much attention from the administration either. Republican Rep. Ernie Fletcher, a doctor, had been talking up his patients bill with White House aides for several months, but getting little more than mild interest. Fletcher's measure was nearly identical to Frist's, except that Fletcher eventually added a provision allowing patients to sue HMOs in state courts in a limited number of cases. Fletcher attached the state court provision as sweetener to draw off Republicans from the Norwood bill. The White House, however, wasn...