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...blame them? After all, emergency departments must treat any patient, regardless of his or her ability to pay. And most of us would like to think that in the event of an accident or sudden illness, an ambulance would be on the scene in minutes to whisk us off to the emergency department, where doctors would be at the ready...
There's a good chance she'll get one. These days, many HMOs as well as Medicare dispute claims on the basis of what constitutes an emergency--rejecting one if, say, a patient who thought he had a heart attack turned out to be suffering from mere heartburn. "We are caught in the middle," says Dr. Stephan Lynn, residency director in the ED at St. Luke's--Roosevelt Hospital in Manhattan, where the medical staff has been cut 15% to 20% over the past five years even as the number of visits has risen 25%. "I get letters from patients...
...SAFE SIDE Surgery may have just got safer. Doctors have discovered that simply adding more oxygen to the mix of gases patients breathe while they're under the knife can cut in half the incidence of wound infection--a serious complication that can prolong hospital stays and even result in death. Among other things, the added oxygen helps white blood cells fight off bacteria. The news comes just three months after the same researchers found that upping oxygen also halves the rate of postoperative vomiting and nausea. The cost of oxygen? Less than 3[cents] a patient...
...each year lock in at the current account value so that if the stock drops, say to $120,000 the following year--and you drop--your heirs will still get $150,000. If you're under age 60, however, the cost may outweigh the rewards of just being patient...
...this psych-fi chiller, Timothy Findley's choice of psychiatrist is not the over-familiar Sigmund Freud but his rival Carl Jung, herald of the theory of collective unconscious. Jung's fictive patient, known as Pilgrim, is an X-Filer's dream and an HMO's nightmare: every time he dies, he comes back to life. Pilgrim is obviously a dramatization of Jung's doctrines. Too obviously. The action is bracketed by the 1912 sinking of the Titanic and the first day of World War I in 1914, and the apocalyptic deep-think brings to mind Peter DeVries' remark about...