Word: sickingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Next to a boy and his dog or a girl and her horse, no fictional setup is quite as durable--and automatically touching if done well--as the story of a sick man and his nurse. Now, to A Farewell to Arms and The English Patient, add another memorable star-crossed Red Cross romance: Thomas Moran's second novel, The World I Made for Her (Riverhead; 273 pages; $23.95), which delves into the bond between James Blatchley, a semicomatose New York City cop, and Nuala Riordan, his Irish-immigrant caregiver. Struck down (as the author himself was once...
...with the quality of medical care they receive, 68% said they think traditional fee-for-service plans provide better health care than HMOs, and only 41% of those covered by managed care said they were "very confident" that their plan would pay for their treatment if they got really sick...
Getting really sick is what worries most Americans. They know how hard it can be to cut through the managed-care red tape for a pair of eyeglasses or a simple ear infection. What would happen, they wonder, if they or one of their loved ones became desperately ill and needed serious--and expensive--medical attention? Who would prevail if their medical needs ran smack into gate-keepers of an HMO focused primarily on reducing costs? The horror stories coming back from the front lines are not encouraging. A sampling...
...sick of Jordan. For goodness' sake, he is not Mother Teresa. He is made out to be such an all-American good guy, when he is just another egocentric professional athlete. ROBERT LIEBMANN Scottsdale, Ariz...
...Sinatra (as he tells me more than once), "I always dealt with him with humor." That would include up to the last time the two men spoke, about a year ago. "I told him, 'Frank, you've got to get well because I haven't worked since you got sick...