Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cost is not the issue. The issue is whether Americans will collectively bear the burden of treating illness, just as we share the burden of defense and police protection. Or will we simply tell the sick and injured of the working class, "tough luck...
Dukakis, the son of a physician, said he intends to make sure that when Americans get sick, "the first question they hear will be the question my father used to ask--the question that doctors and nurses ask every day--not `how can you pay?' but `where does it hurt...
Doctors have little doubt that crack is driving the new epidemic of drug- affected infants. "When crack cocaine hit Oakland, the number of small, sick babies just went through the roof," says Fulroth. The statistics bear him out. In 1984 some 5% of the newborns at Highland General Hospital, which serves Oakland's rough inner city, were contaminated with the drug. So far this year, about 20% of all babies born at Highland have been afflicted by crack. The problem, however, is not confined to low-income, minority patients. Says Chasnoff: "Our findings cut across all socioeconomic backgrounds...
...other aspect of her personality, the humorous, tender side, is reflected not only in the devotion of her staff but also in the lively, casual air of St. Christopher's. Visitors, even small children, are admitted at all hours. Dogs stroll around, visiting their sick owners. Some patients sip whiskey with their visitors. "It's like a five-star hotel," says an elderly patient. More, perhaps, it is a throwback to the early days of the century, when care from birth to death was normally delivered at home. As Matron Duffield observes, "A hospital would insist on a strict diet...
Though not as sick as the S and L business, the commercial-banking industry has major difficulties all its own. Chief among them is the seemingly never ending saga of Third World debt. The ten largest banks have more than $50 billion on loan to developing countries. This sum amounts to roughly 100% of their shareholders' equity; if all the loans went into default, the banks' capital would be wiped...