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EACH Saturday this summer, I worked the day shift in the Emergency Care Center at D.C. General. I assisted the medical staff during trauma emergencies, wheeled patients to x-rays and stocked supplies in the walk-in clinic. After two months in the emergency room, what surprises me most about the case of Patricia Jones is that it doesn't happen more often...
District Police officers, for example, have written in their contract that they will never be taken to D.C. General in the case of a trauma emergency. If an officer and an innocent bystander get shot, the officer is helicoptered to a high-tech facility in Virginia, and the city resident goes to D.C. General...
Bosze's attorneys argue that agreeing to a transplant would benefit not only Jean-Pierre but the twins too, by sparing them the trauma of knowing that their half brother died when they might have been able to save him. Their effort echoes a 1969 Kentucky case in which a court ordered a mentally impaired young man to donate a kidney to his ailing brother. It reasoned that the retarded man would be devastated by his brother's death...
...most of the Jews who survived the concentration camps of Europe -- as well as for many who lived abroad -- the solution to trauma was distance from Germany and things German. How could they live and work in a country that had sought their very destruction? How could they allow themselves and their children to be German when that word had become their very antithesis...
...spite of crisis and chaos in the emergency rooms, the photographers had only praise for the doctors and nurses working there. "They are incredibly cool and professional," says Kenneth Jarecke, who took his cameras to the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center at University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore...