Word: patients
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When a "code blue" emergency sounded in the cardiac ward of Good Samaritan Hospital in West Islip, N.Y., Registered Nurse Richard Angelo, 25, was often first on the scene, working feverishly to save the endangered patient. No wonder: Angelo regularly created those emergencies by injecting elderly patients with muscle-paralyzing drugs that led to respiratory failure. Then he would lead resuscitation efforts in a bizarre attempt to look like a hero to his co-workers...
...bearded nurse was found out when a 73-year-old cardiac patient experienced shortness of breath after he observed Angelo injecting a substance into his intravenous tube. Angelo confessed last week to giving 35 such injections this year. Authorities suspect that ten to 20 patients have died in the past three months from the lethal doses. The bodies of several will be exhumed to determine whether they were victims of a deadly bid for popularity...
...Center for Applied Sciences in Hazel Crest, Ill., has studied thousands of relapse cases and found that on their way to recovery, alcoholics go through specific stages, each with its dangerous temptation to return to drinking. Early on, it may be hard to cope with withdrawal. Later, the patient may falter in developing a normal family and social life. Finally, there is a period of complacency, when the recovering alcoholic no longer fears drinking as he once did. At each point, says Gorski, "the person is out of control before he actually starts to drink." His solution: counselors who meet...
...disease, and it can be a ruinously expensive one. A four-week drying-out regimen can cost anywhere from $4,000 to $20,000 for in-patient care; today medical insurance covers the tab for 70% of American workers in companies with more than 100 employees. In the early 1970s, the Kemper Group of Long Grove, Ill., was the first national insurance company to include coverage for alcoholism in all its group policies. The firm's hunch: the bill for helping an alcoholic quit today would be cheaper than nursing him through afflictions like cirrhosis of the liver and strokes...
...They're very, very patient," the warden said of the inmates. "We are ready for a long haul...