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...loathsome and disgusting word, not suitable for a family journal, and it will not be used here. But Daniel Coyle's narrative of a Little League season in Chicago's most notoriously septic housing project does make the reader feel, briefly, that the odds on the human race are no worse than 3 to 2 against...
...addition to the perplexing paint, residents have been plagued over the past three weeks by a septic system backup and a family of insects dwelling in a smoke alarm...
...troubled millennium ticks away) civilization is banging and whimpering toward its well-deserved end. The characters are Kraft, a harried, too sensitive surgeon-in-training; Espera, a gallant nurse; and an appalling procession of dying children. The doomed kids arrive by ambulance and taxi, bleeding from gunshot wounds, septic with cancers both physical and psychological, withering from every disease in the manual. Kraft prunes and hacks and catheterizes; Espera listens and comforts; the children bleed and expire...
...father by the ventricles. Lying awake in sweaty sheets at 3 a.m., any parent of any teenager ! sees an immediate future more or less like Brown's melodrama: a 17-year-old New Hampshire boy named Jacob, no sulkier or more hostile than the next kid, suddenly goes septic and gets himself into hideous trouble. The cops, in fact, think he has bludgeoned his pregnant girlfriend to death with a car jack. It becomes clear to his parents (who knew nothing about the girlfriend) and younger sister that he is probably guilty, though when he is caught after several days...
...same vein, some extremely expensive technologies are used even before it is clear that they're needed. That may be the case with at least one new biotech drug, Centoxin, which is available on a limited basis to treat hospital-acquired infections that can cause fatal septic shock (estimated cost: $3,800 a dose). Trouble is, since the condition can kill so quickly, doctors will have to decide whether to administer the drug before they are sure the patient needs...