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...even some go home the same day, and the carpal tunnel patients are out the door in less than an hour. I lived through the change - patients and doctors both were pretty nervous as discharges moved up. Where's the line? Right now there are some docs sending total knee patients home on the day of surgery. That's too far for me - and I have lots of reasons for thinking so - but until there are reported complications I reserve judgment; I have to admit I felt the same way about many of my "same day surgeries" before they were...
...more than two decades. Detroit's murder rate of 39.3 per 100,000 is six times as great as New York, more than three times that of Los Angeles and more than double that of Chicago. "It's even higher than in Philadelphia," says Cox, adding the total number of murders in Detroit climbed more than 17% last year. While 3,100 American soldiers have died in the war in Iraq, 1,518 Detroiters have been murdered during roughly the same four-year stretch from the beginning of 2003 to the end of 2006, says Cox. "The mayor is doing...
...Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte - to reveal that its defense spending in the forthcoming year would rise by nearly 18%, to almost $45 billion, the biggest increase in five years, and a larger increase than U.S. defense officials had anticipated. The U.S. believes that a straightforward accounting of total military expenditures - including new equipment purchases, which Beijing does not include in its report of annual defense spending - would amount to $150 billion...
...forward Evan Harris sidelined with a stress fracture in his left foot, Columbia’s big-man combo of John Baumann (6’8, 220 lbs.) and Ben Nwachukwu (6’9, 235 lbs.) exploited a short-handed Crimson interior defense to the tune of 33 total points on 13-of-18 shooting. The Lions shot 55 percent from the field overall, including a torrid 67 percent in the second half. “The thing we certainly didn’t do tonight was low-post defense,” Harvard coach Frank Sullivan said...
...national championships in two weeks. Each wrestler now has his sights set on the national title, for which this tournament had been a warm-up.The EIWA sends the top four wrestlers in each weight class to the NCAA Championships with an additional seven wild card slots, making a total of 47 wrestlers who qualify from the conference.“All four of us are all capable of coming home with the national championship,” said tri-captain Max Meltzer, who finished third at 141 lb. despite suffering a tough first-round upset. “Each...