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...Thai Cuisine, the tiny kitchen at the far end of the Chinatown Eatery, is like the rest of the store-front restaurants, a congenial, family-oriented place. After the trauma of squid and other eastern exotica, something with chicken in it sounds appealing...
Beset by patients who cannot pay and doctors who fear malpractice suits, special emergency trauma centers are on the critical list...
...fire-department rescue team rushed a 19-year-old gunshot victim to a nearby hospital emergency room unfamiliar with such cases. Within hours the patient, who had been alert and in satisfactory condition, began to fail. The hospital staff, unable to respond adequately, belatedly asked the Cook County Hospital trauma unit to take the patient. On his arrival at the facility, some five hours after first receiving medical aid, the youth was dead...
Beset by high costs and poor patients, often ignored by paramedics and abandoned by doctors who fear malpractice suits, the nation's trauma centers -- specialized 24-hour emergency rooms -- have been especially hard hit. Last week the Journal of the American Medical Association published a survey of U.S. regional trauma systems that came up with a disturbing diagnosis. Twenty- two years after the National Academy of Sciences declared that trauma was the "neglected disease of modern society," only two states, Maryland and Virginia, have set up acceptable statewide systems. Nineteen states and the District of Columbia either have incomplete coverage...
Those odds also apply to affluent areas. In Northern California a bicyclist whose legs were severely damaged in an accident lay for several hours in a local emergency room waiting for special surgeons. The patient was eventually transferred to a trauma unit in San Francisco, where doctors had to amputate one of his legs. A more tragic case occurred at a Nevada hospital that claimed to specialize in trauma care. A skier with a ruptured spleen died while waiting for a CAT scan ordered by a surgeon who believed the patient's injuries were not immediately life threatening...