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People often complain that it takes the police too long to answer calls for help. Last week, however, the Justice Department released a report suggesting that victims of crime may be just as responsible for such delays. The study, conducted by the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration in Kansas City, Mo., showed that for 1,000 victims of major felonies, it took a median time of 6 min. 17 sec. to call the police. Many victims were said to have telephoned other people, investigated the crime scene themselves or called a private security guard before summoning police. The survey also cited...
...Disneyland atmosphere, the explosive controversy seemed out of place. But the heated debate about coronary bypass surgery clearly dominated the annual scientific session of the American College of Cardiology, held last month in Anaheim, Calif. TIME Contributor Gilbert Cant attended along with some 7,000 physicians and surgeons. His report...
...unequivocal. "Bypass surgery," he declared, "is the most important development of the decade in medicine." Not necessarily so, countered a number of cardiologists, notably those affiliated with Veterans Administration hospitals or other federal agencies. Dr. Henry D. Mclntosh, also a college past president, summarized their view in a report published in the journal Circulation: "Except for certain relatively small [groups] of patients, there is no convincing evidence that the procedure prevents or postpones premature death...
...critics of bypass surgery have noted that it is already a $ 1 billion a year industry and that its ballooning costs threaten the future of other health care in the U.S. Joseph Califano, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, told a Senate subcommittee that if a preliminary Veterans Administration report proves accurate, "hundreds of millions of dollars could be saved through less frequent use of this expensive surgery...
...most unsuitable group to study because their mortality under medical therapy alone was already less than 1 %." In agreement was Dr. Donald B. Effler, head of cardiovascular surgery at the Cleveland Clinic when his chief associate, Dr. René Favaloro, developed the bypass. Said Effler: "I think the VA report has already been shot down, and if not, then it will be before sunset." Favaloro, recalled from his home base in Argentina to deliver one of the session's two principal lectures, made an impassioned, hour-long argument for bypass surgery on properly selected patients. Commented Boston Heart Surgeon...