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Dick Cooper's words carry weight. A somewhat boyish-looking 42, he is one of the youngest and brightest members of the small group of academics who regularly ride the policymaking circuit between the capital and the campuses. In previous Washington incarnations, he was a senior staff economist on John Kennedy's Council of Economic Advisers, and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Monetary Affairs in the Johnson Administration. At Yale, he has not only taught international economics for eleven years but also served as the university's provost from 1972 to '74. Says Yale...
...Temple Scroll labors finally behind him, Yadin, 59, is plunging into a new enthusiasm: politics. Not that his career has been confined to the campus. He was head of the operations division during Israel's 1948 war of independence, and he served three years as chief of staff of the new nation's army. Resuming his work as an archaeologist. Yadin led the digs at biblical Megiddo and Hazor and at the Masada fortress where Jewish Zealots held off a Roman siege for three years before committing mass suicide...
...burns over three-quarters of the body, his chances of survival are about 50%." A major reason for this remarkable improvement is the emergence of a whole new branch of medicine. A few years ago, only a handful of the nation's 6,000 hospitals had the special staff and facilities for treating critically burned patients. The number of burn units has now risen to 174. About a dozen with research labs qualify as major burn centers...
...Angels. Because burn patients require constant attention, the centers must have large staffs. Nurses must be at bedside 24 hours a day, and at least one physician must always be near by, to say nothing of a host of aides, ranging from cleaners to technicians who prepare the IV fluids. In some hospitals, because of the horrible nature of the injuries, few staff members remain in burn units for more than six months at a time. Those who stay on win the admiration of their colleagues. Says Spokesman Kenneth Dale of the Crozer-Chester Medical Center, a major burn facility...
Expensive equipment and large staff-to-patient ratios (10 or 15 to 1) make burn care extremely expensive. Daily costs run from $350 to $750. Also, occupancy rates in burn units may be low for long stretches. For these reasons, some officials would like burn treatment kept part of the regular acute-care facilities of hospitals. Burn specialists disagree. They argue that burn centers not only provide patients with a level of treatment unavailable anywhere else but also make economic sense. Insists Dr. John Converse, head of reconstructive plastic surgery at N.Y.U. Medical Center: "Good burn centers eventually save money...