Word: traumas
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Such critical accidents are not uncommon. "Trauma"-which in medical parlance includes injuries from all accidents-trails only heart disease and cancer as the nation's leading killer, and claims more than 100,000 American lives a year. However, Barr was more fortunate than most accident victims: he lived in Illinois. Borrowing from the speedy evacuation and emergency medical systems developed by the armed forces in Viet Nam, Illinois has established a unique, statewide trauma-care system to treat accident victims. It is in effect a highly coordinated system of communication and facilities that can mobilize the whole state...
Airlift. Barr's case was handled with typical military precision. The ambulance driver dispatched to the lake radioed the nearby Carbondale hospital that Barr's neck appeared broken. The "trauma coordinator" there arranged to airlift Barr 300 miles to Chicago's Wesley Memorial Hospital, which has a unit that specializes in spinal injuries. He knew that Southern Illinois University had an ambulance plane and asked them to have it ready in Carbondale, where Barr was heading by ambulance. By the time Barr reached the airfield, a doctor was on hand to confirm the break, and a nurse...
Established by legislative act a year ago, the Illinois Trauma System is the idea of two surgeons: Dr. David Boyd, chief of emergency medical services for the state of Illinois, and Dr. Bruce Flashner, deputy director of the state department of public health. It owes its existence to Governor Richard Ogilvie, who credits quick medical attention for his own survival after a World War II wound. "If you're going to get hurt," Ogilvie told a recent Governors' convention, in an unusual example of boosterism, "do it in Illinois...
...question was not wholly rhetorical. On March 25, 1919, depressed by a crisis in his own work and by the trauma of the lost war, Lehmbruck killed himself. He was 38. Ever since, the German art world has tended to the view that Lehmbruck's was an exemplary suicide-that, as Critic Reinhold Heller puts it, "his death became a supplication for peace and a sacrificial self-immolation in a world which had declared...
...primary votes he got, has given him a credibility and a respectability he did not have before. He is no longer a regional fringe candidate. As he says: "The other candidates are speaking in different tones of voice about me than they did four years ago." Despite the trauma of the shooting, both Wallace and his wife Cornelia show signs of boredom with provincial life in Montgomery and appear to yearn for a larger stage...