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...baby boy, born three months prematurely at Children's Hospital in Washington, is one of thousands of 2-lb. problems facing medicine. For more than a month he has been kept alive inside a plastic incubator. Miniature sunglasses are taped over his eyes, IV lines are cut into his neck, and tubes have been jammed up his nose and down his throat. Although $2,000 a day is being spent to keep this child alive, he will be permanently handicapped if he ever leaves the hospital. But it is unlikely that this infant will go home. "This baby...
...Andrew and Tayenaka remember the night they forced a local community hospital to admit a man who was gushing blood from a bullet wound to the neck. The sophisticated county trauma centers were closed; a less-equipped emergency room at Downey Community Hospital, six minutes away, was full. The paramedics were ordered to St. Francis Medical Center, twice the distance. They went instead to Downey, and the man survived the night. "I know the situation," said St. Andrew. "I'd pay extra taxes to keep the trauma centers open. I want one available if my kid is hurt...
...doctors and nurses of St. Bernard Hospital in Chicago already had their hands full when the Trans Am nearly crashed into the emergency room. The driver, who had been shot in the neck, lost consciousness as he approached the hospital and ran into a retaining wall just out front. Five more feet and he would have landed in the waiting room. The trauma team dragged him out of the car, raced him into the emergency room, cut off his clothes and tried to use suction equipment to get the blood out of his lungs. A thoracic surgeon was called...
Later that day, Zimmerman came from a set down to put away Rich Lubner of Cal-Irvine. But yesterday, the righthander from Great Neck, N.Y., saw his season end in a straight-set match at the hands of Notre Dame's David DiLucia, who was seeded in the 9-16 bracket...
...five of internal exile for anti-Soviet activities. He suffered extremely harsh treatment. At the end of Orlov's trial, a scuffle broke out when his friends were barred from entering the courtroom to hear the verdict. I hit one KGB agent; Lusia, receiving a sharp blow to the neck from another, smacked him back, but as she was being shoved into a police car, she accidentally punched the local police chief. She said later, "I was right to hit the KGB agent and don't regret it, but I struck the police chief by mistake, and I'd like...