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...Washington, D.C., more than half of all trauma center patients are admitted with gunshot or stab wounds. At D.C. General Hospital, nearly 60 percent of emergency room patients have been shot or stabbed. Most of these wounds come from drug-related violence. And most of these patients cannot pay their medical bills...
...inner-city hospitals everywhere, the number of homeless men and women who check into emergency rooms and trauma centers rises dramatically on cold, rainy days. Destitute AIDS patients come to emergency rooms to die, and pregnant mothers in labor, with no prenatal care and no insurance, arrive when it's too late to turn them away...
...number of uninsured patients showing up at emergency room and trauma center doors is driving hospitals to close them down at an alarming rate. A hospital can be reimbursed by the government for as little as 3 percent of a patient bill, which means a loss of $194,000 on a $200,000 bill. An urban emergency room may handle more than 200 patients in a 12-hour shift. Many hospital emergency rooms have been shut down in the past several years. In Los Angeles County, a recent study showed, almost half of hospital emergency rooms have closed in recent...
...guilty, poor guy. Leigh is watching life ebb away as she nears middle age; things are bad, and they're going to get worse. And Danny despises them both. She needs to break out from them, no matter what danger she might break into. They all need a trauma that will either bind them together or completely tear them apart. So we ran all these changes on the 'good' family. And now that they're imperfect, I love every one of them...
...Incest and rape are both hideous crimes, and we can never make light of the trauma that a woman has undergone when she has been violated in this way. However, an abortion will not undo rape or incest. And furthermore it is unjust to kill an innocent child for the crime of its father...