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...give him prescribed painkillers or alert his doctor to his worsening condition. Another resident had a bedsore, and the doctor ordered the bandage to be changed twice a day; it was unchanged for nearly two weeks. A third nursing-home resident was brought to a hospital, where the patient was found to have had a broken leg for at least three weeks and the nursing-home records were missing. A woman whose four bedsores were exposed to the bone and required daily cleaning was rarely given the prescribed pain medicine before the procedure...
...first patient to benefit from the pilot program was Della O'Leary, 60, a part-time receptionist with no health insurance and an $8,000 bill for gallbladder surgery. Would she be interested in using her keyboard skills to enter data into a hospital computer? O'Leary agreed. After she worked 20 hours a week for four months, her debt was paid. "I was brought up to take care of my bills," O'Leary says. "Without this program, I was going to be paying little by little for the rest of my life...
...profit corporation that receives reliable revenues, employs sharp-penciled "gatekeepers" who only grudgingly dole out "care" and cannot be sued may be an investor's dream, but it is a patient's worst nightmare. EDWARD K. GARRISON Chicago...
Which disorders and what symptoms? Generally the thyroid causes problems in two different ways. The more common disorder, hypothyroidism, occurs when the gland fails to produce enough thyroid hormone. The body's metabolism slows down, and the patient complains of not having any energy and feeling mentally sluggish...
...himself in videos of other hitters in the off season and has tuned in fully to the advice of Cub coaches. "I always thought this guy could really put up some gigantic numbers if we could get him to swing at better pitches and get him to be more patient," said batting coach Jeff Pentland. Sosa agrees: "I don't want to go to the home plate with the idea that I need to hit a home run. I just want to relax and use all the field. When I do that, I know I can hit a home...