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...awards, even as the slumping stock market has ended the fat returns they used to get from investing premiums. As insurers try to make up for their losses by sharply raising rates, medical facilities are shuttering wards and doctors are dropping high-risk practice areas such as obstetrics and trauma surgery. Employers are shying away from the hardest-hit cities while doctors and legislators cobble together solutions that could change the face of medical care...
...after annual insurance premiums for its group of four hospitals swelled to $22 million, from $7 million in 2000. In Arizona one woman gave birth by the side of the road before she reached the only remaining maternity ward in an area of 6,000 sq. mi. The sole trauma center in Las Vegas closed for 10 days in July, forcing critically injured patients to be helicoptered to California or treated in ill-equipped local emergency rooms...
...Donna Newman's day to serve as a public defender at the federal courthouse for the southern district of New York. For lawyers in private practice like Newman, 54, it's the legal equivalent of being an on-call trauma surgeon at the local ER: if somebody needs a lawyer, she is it. "All I knew was, I had this assignment," she says, "and I had to come in that day." As it turned out, on May 15 somebody needed a lawyer very badly indeed. That was the day that Jose Padilla--former Chicago gang member, alleged would-be dirty...
...wants to be somebody you can believe in to pull this whole thing together," she says. "Unfortunately, people don't know him, and this gets perceived as cynical or flippant. It's not. It's just a survival technique he's developed over the years from listening to one trauma after another...
...TONS OF FUN Reaching the Dubare Elephant Camp is almost a safari in itself. You have to traverse a muddy, turbulent river in a questionably sound boat. But once on terra firma, the trauma of the crossing becomes worthwhile. The camp, a settlement of about 30 tribal families, was once engaged in the capture and breaking of wild elephants. Today the residents breed and train the ones they already have, and put on shows for tourists. Sounds pretty tame, but the camp's denizens love to point to a rogue jumbo, tethered with heavy chains nearby, and recount the harrowing...