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...student was elated; here was a big computer that was his to play with as he saw fit. So he told two friends, and they told two friends and over the next several weeks they broke into the $750,000 computer of the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center a total of 80 times--rummaging through private patient data and treatment records, reading private memos between doctors and, on at least two occasions, causing the system that monitors and plans patient treatment to close down entirely. They also added personal touches to the machine. Spurred by the movie Wargames that had just...
...still unidentified teenage computer whiz was caught before too much harm could be done to Sloan-Kettering, but the scenario shows with dramatic immediacy the vital importance of securing computing systems. It is easy to see the ever increasing role that computers play in our society. They control the fate of "the earth through the Defense Department's vast force of nuclear armaments and early warning systems. From the immediate process of buying a ticket or confirming a reservation to the more general duties of navigation and air-traffic control they determine the fate of every passenger on every plane...
...that the worst pain he had ever felt was when his canteen got hit. The second worst: surface wounds on his face. "What pain signifies makes a big difference in how it is perceived," explains Houde, now chief of pain drug research at New York City's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Fear, anxiety, stress, the expectation of disaster can make pain seem much worse than it is. For cancer patients, he explains, pain is often magnified because it is interpreted as "a signal of the disease having recurred, or some terrible complication setting in, or worse, that...
...cancer patients, more drastic measures are often needed. According to Kathleen Foley, chief of the pain service at Sloan-Kettering, only about one-third of cancer patients suffer severe pain. With these, the tumor is the cause in 65% of patients, either because it impinges on nerves or because it releases chemicals that affect the nervous system. An additional 30% have pain resulting from the treatment (for example, chemotherapy). Cancer of the pancreas and of bones can be particularly painful because of the sensitive nerves in or near these organs. In the vast majority of cases, cancer pain...
...will find its way from the hospital to the street. But the larger question is whether patients will really benefit from the drug. "The evidence would suggest that her oin is the great non-issue of our day," says Kathleen Foley, chief of the pain service at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. Foley, who has testified against the bill, challenges many of Quattlebaum's claims. While heroin is more soluble than morphine, she says, it is somewhat less potent than Dilaudid, a synthetic opiate already on the U.S. market. Nor is heroin likely...