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...rush of cranky customers began around Christmas. Just as hordes of frazzled parents were descending on shopping malls, crowds of feverish, aching bodies were flooding the emergency department at Thunderbird Samaritan Medical Center outside Phoenix, Ariz., desperate for relief from this winter's nasty, widespread strain of flu. On many days, a couple of hundred patients, from wheezing senior citizens to crying babies in their weary mothers' arms, clogged the waiting room, sitting for up to six hours to see a doctor. It didn't take long for the 35 beds in Thunderbird's ED, and many on its other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critical Condition | 1/31/2000 | See Source »

...epidemiologists at the Centers for Disease Control keep telling us that this year's outbreak is no worse than last year's--just a little earlier than usual. In fact, we're battling the same strain as in 1999, and the current vaccine is quite effective at preventing it. Could it be that all the media attention is driven, at least in part, by the aggressive advertising campaigns for Relenza and another antiviral drug, Tamiflu, which were only recently approved by the Food and Drug Administration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don't Be Flued | 1/24/2000 | See Source »

...recent upswing in emergency room visits indicates, this year's flu strain has hit early and often, taking a toll both on patients and exhausted doctors. According to CNN, a spokesman from California's Health and Human Services Department has tried to ease the pressure on beleaguered hospital staff by asking the public not to descend on the state's emergency rooms. After a stint in the Southwest, the flu is bearing down with particular force on the Northeastern states: Public health facilities across New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Virginia are dealing with a massive influx of patients suffering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Emergency Rooms Feel the Sydney Strain | 1/6/2000 | See Source »

...cyberrentals.com grouped rentals by region but had no map to tell me where such romantic-sounding places as Seal Cove or Owl's Head were. So I had to log on to mapblast.com to locate each one, then return to slogging through listings. My computer was choking under the strain. Another site, vacationspot.com let me zero in on cabins and cottages. I got 50 matches right off, but most of the rentals turned out to be closed for the winter--something I learned only after reading a lot of fine print. I tried branching out and found a "millennium special...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Holiday Headache | 1/1/2000 | See Source »

...Steven, 10, at home. They had long been advised to institutionalize the boy, who has cerebral palsy, uses a wheelchair, needs a ventilator to breathe and suffers from seizures. But aided by a team of nurses, the couple provided the round-the-clock care Steven needed. Still, the strain of medical crises can take its toll. Says Susanmarie Trout, a friend of the Kelsos and herself the mother of a severely disabled teenager: "You're always walking a thin line between being able to cope and losing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Christmas Nightmare | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

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