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...Cayman Islands worth some $15.5 million. At the same time, Phoebe had sued citizens in the Dougherty County area, one of the nation's poorest, hundreds of times over a five-year span, making the hospital one of the region's most litigious parties. Phoebe garnished the wages of patient Virginia Franklins, 49, even though she made $7 an hour pressing men's dress shirts and had no house or car to her name. After that, Franklins says, "I couldn't afford to pay my bills." She now lives off welfare, caring for a 13-year-old niece as well...
...patient still there with you?” the 911 dispatcher, Michael Ferraro—who also testified today—asked Pring-Wilson...
Medication is an option, not a necessity, in treating depression. In the cases where antidepressants are considered alongside the requisite therapy sessions, however, one must weigh the risks and benefits of antidepressants carefully; if chosen, vigilant patient monitoring during the first few weeks (when the likelihood of suicide is greater) should be implemented. Until more is known, this is all that can be done, save hope that SSRIs’ negative press is only transitory. For we cannot afford to lose sight of all that antidepressants have done to assist the countless young victims of this debilitating illness...
...operation is routine--300,000 performed every year. If you are the patient, however, it does not feel routine to have your chest cracked open and, after a period of pleasant blackout that seems to last an instant (and that later makes you think it's what death and eternity must be like), to come swimming back up into consciousness shaking uncontrollably from the cold. (Your body has been packed in ice for the procedure.) A coronary bypass is routine for the surgeons but memorable for the patient...
...peppermint tea. She has no time for "the idea that if you write about something dark, you must be dark; if you write about someone who's annoying, you've got to be annoying." Not to worry; she looks just fine in denim and handles the attention with patient and good-natured aplomb. She's had some practice by now. Alison Kennedy has been in print since 1991 - four books of short stories, two of nonfiction and three previous novels, including Everything You Need (1999). Yet she still features on those media-friendly lists of British young bloods to watch...