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Latex examining gloves are a common feature of health care. But fear of AIDS infection has produced a side effect: more doctors, dentists and nurses than ever are using gloves, and some have become so cautious that they change pairs several times with a single patient. The result: a surge in demand, a doubling of prices and a growing shortage of gloves...
...meeting their contracts and are scrambling to increase output. Says John Strong, president of Health Care Materials Corp.: "Hospitals are within two to three days of not being able to do certain procedures." Industry sources say an element of hysteria has led some hospital employees who have no direct patient contact, like maintenance workers, to begin wearing gloves on the job. Other health-care workers are "double gloving" and in some cases wearing three layers of latex...
...good doctor, Crimson Coach Pete Roby, prescribed an alert zone defense and a patient offense to cure the squad's ills...
...Williams instead of Screenwriter Mitch Markowitz. But he has created a smart and intricate context for the star. The station's staff constitutes a sort of awkward squad of the airwaves, commanded by Lieut. Hauk (Bruno Kirby, who lifts nerdiness to a new comic plain), but anchored in patient decency by Private First Class Garlick (Forest Whitaker, who lovably redefines the straight man's role...
...witnesses who have written memorably of Nazi evils, this retired chemist at a Turin paint factory was the most discriminating. His books Survival in Auschwitz, The Reawakening and Moments of Reprieve read as if revenge (a dish best eaten cold, advises the proverb) were a matter of patient qualitative analysis. In The Periodic Table (1984), Levi even used the known basic elements as metaphors for human characteristics. His Jewish ancestors from the Piedmont, for example, resembled argon: "Inert in their inner spirits, inclined to disinterested speculation, witty discourses, elegant, sophisticated, and gratuitous discussion...