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...admitted. As John B. Moses and Wilbur Cross relate in the book Presidential Courage (W.W. Norton Co., 1980), many Presidents suffered, usually in silence and secrecy, from chronic and painful diseases. George Washington had a giant benign tumor in his leg and was the victim of rheumatism and repeated pneumonia. Andrew Jackson, famous for his stamina and courage, was described in a contemporary article in the Boston Medical School Journal as "a tottering scarecrow in deadly agony," a man in whom "the malaria, the dysentery, the osteomyelitis and the bronchiectasis were going on, and on, and on." But Jackson continued...
...successful insurgent candidacy that brought increased democracy to the union and in 1974 negotiated a contract widely regarded as the best ever, but whose leadership was subsequently plagued by factional power struggles, rank-and-file dissension and finally the failing health that led to his 1979 resignation; of pneumonia; in Charleston...
DIED. Sheldon R. Luce, 76, retired sheep rancher in Yolo County, Calif., and one-time colleague, in advertising sales and corporate affairs, of his elder brother, Time Inc. Founder Henry Luce; of pneumonia after heart surgery; in Palo Alto, Calif...
...greater medical transparency this month when they launched a new website hospitalcompare.hhs.gov that allows consumers to assess the care at any of nearly 4,200 hospitals across the U.S. for three conditions: heart attack, heart failure (a progressive weakening of the cardiac muscle's ability to pump blood) and pneumonia. The site is easy to use and is based on nationally accepted standards of care--although there are a few wrinkles you should know about...
...points is limited, with just 17 variables to choose from. Some of the measures are easy to understand, such as the percentage of heart-attack patients who are given an aspirin when they first arrive at the hospital. Others are a little more obscure, such as the number of pneumonia patients "given initial antibiotic timing," which turns out to mean they got antibiotics within four hours of arrival...