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...they might have handled one such case a day. On another gurney lay a man doctors described as a would-be carjacker, knifed in the lung. Nearby moaned a man with a bandaged right hand he claimed was hurt when he tried to stop a thief. A third patient, writhing on a bed, had taken a bullet in the kidney after escaping a botched theft, hospital aides said. The doctors in the emergency room face a painful dilemma: many who come to be saved are routinely threatening others' lives. Among them are surely some of the thousands of common criminals...
...worst ordeal when a friend, a 50-year-old woman, had a massive coronary. We couldn't save her, even with all our emergency medical technology. She had smoked and taken hormones but had shown no outward signs of heart disease. Since then I have tried to inform every patient of the need for tests and vigilance about the symptoms of heart disease. Women's heart-disease symptoms are different from men's. Regular cardiovascular checkups would save more women's lives. JANNIE MARTIN Baytown, Texas...
...businesswoman who traveled to afflicted Guangdong province had brought the disease back to Shanghai and was admitted to the Contagious Disease Hospital. For weeks, she was Shanghai's only confirmed SARS case. Yet, at the same time, medical staff at the hospital said there were two other SARS patients in the isolation ward?the woman's elderly father and a man from Guangdong province. When asked why the other two were not part of the official statistics, one hospital worker theorized that the father wasn't counted since he was an ancillary case to his daughter and the Guangdong...
...play by its own rules. But the city's unilateralist approach to severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) puzzles a senior hospital administrator from Shanghai's Huangpu district. A month ago, visiting experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) said Shanghai would relax its superstringent standards for diagnosing suspected SARS patients to conform with international norms. That should have caused the city's tiny caseload of suspected SARS patients to increase substantially. But just a couple of days after the WHO's announcement, the hospital administrator was curtly informed by local health-bureau officials that the standards would not be changed...
...Nevertheless, local bureaucrats emphasize that SARS isn't a homegrown problem, reiterating that all of Shanghai's SARS cases to date have been "imported." All 11 suspected cases have an "epilink," meaning each person either visited a SARS-infected region or had contact with a SARS patient, according to a doctor on the SARS-consultation board of Shanghai's Center for Disease Control. But that's a tautology: because local doctors are still following the old diagnostic standard, no one without an epilink can be designated as a suspected SARS case, much less a confirmed one. And proving that epilink...