Word: phoned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...taps the SEND panel on her screen, and Bruce Stephens, being prepped for coronary angioplasty in the next room, receives another Duke service: prayer. Crater has entered Stephens' name with the Virtual Jerusalem website, which inserts prayers in that city's Western Wall. She will also e-mail or phone it to Buddhist monks in Nepal, a Carmelite convent near Baltimore, an interdenominational Christian prayer center in Missouri and several other congregations--all of which will entrust it further to some Higher Force. Only when the requests have gone out will Dr. Mitchell Krucoff insert a catheter, and eventually several...
SEPT. 3 A phone call from Joe Robbins, a Duke financial coordinator, to Jackie Brown, PHP's transplant coordinator, was the first anyone at the insurance company knew of Hunter's whereabouts. Both recognized that the patient was "out of network," but it would be weeks before anyone would sort out how it was that Hunter ended up in a hospital with no plan to pay for an operation that could cost anywhere from $80,000, if the procedure went smoothly, to perhaps $1 million, if complications arose. The precipitating error apparently took place in the back offices of MUSC...
Then, within hours, O'Connor was back on the phone telling Trotter that PHP wanted Hunter moved--not to Alabama this time but to the University of North Carolina Medical Center, a mere 20 minutes away...
...have a lot of phone calls in the beginning with my father, discussing when it didn't come out," Tahmili says. "We had to change a lot of our recipes...
University officials could not be reached in time to comment on the AT&T plan, but to students who pay anywhere from a few cents to several thousand dollars in phone bills, it's an easy call...