Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...patient in the shiny new emergency ward of Suburban General Hospital in Norristown, Pa., inexplicably began to turn blue last month while presumably breathing oxygen. To his horror, Dr. Leonard Becker discovered that the tube labeled OXYGEN was actually pumping nitrous oxide to his patient. After a preliminary investigation, hospital authorities last week admitted that mislabeled pipe connections for the anesthetic gas "may have" caused as many as five deaths in the hospital since Suburban opened its wing almost eight months ago. In all, some 300 patients were apparently dosed with nitrous oxide by mistake...
...slows down the heart, reducing the body's ability to consume oxygen, and is thus especially dangerous to victims of heart attacks and emphysema. Rather than producing sharply different symptoms, it is likely to exaggerate the difficulties that such patients are already suffering-a medical fact cited by Suburban General as one explanation of the delay in discovering the mixup. Whatever its cause, the grim Suburban story is by no means unique. In June jurors awarded a record $7 million in damages to the family of Carolyn Ann Lord, who died from being given nitrous oxide instead of oxygen...
...automated its neolithic production processes and spun off four new suburban editions. Sulzberger has also injected new life into the newspaper's parent New York Times Co., which embraces nine smaller dailies, four weeklies, six magazines (including Us, circ. 500,000, a four-month-old imitator of Time Inc.'s PEOPLE), two broadcast stations, three book publishers and part of three Canadian Paper mills. Once an institution more interested in public service than profit, the New York Times Co. is now on Wall Street's goodbuy lists. After several years of see-saw profits (net income was $13.6 million...
...complaints that the new supplements, plus the suburban editions, court the suburbs at the expense of urbanites, Times editors insist that the paper has not reduced the amount of money, staff or space it lavishes on New York City news. They also assert that
Hannah Jackson, 42, is told by her doctor that she has cancer of the cervix. Fortunately the disease is at an early stage. One operation and then Hannah can resume the life of a middle-class English suburban housewife. She says no. She will take the two years remaining to her, thank you, and call it a life. Irked at having his advice dismissed so airily, and by a woman to boot, the doctor asks Hannah why. "I have not done anything at all without someone else's interests being the prime factor," she replies. "This is the last...