Word: treating
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...more subtle ways. It has shown, for example, that some people who are legally entitled to buy guns are very likely to commit crimes with them, and that denying them the right to buy weapons can actually reduce crime. "I realized," says Wintemute, "that the most effective way to treat a gunshot wound was to keep it from happening in the first place...
...established burn centers, staffed by the medical equivalent of police swat teams, that accommodate every need of critically injured burn victims. America's busiest burn unit is at Manhattan's New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center and consists of some 100 doctors, nurses, therapists, social workers and dieticians who treat 1,300 patients a year in the unit's 46-bed facility. "The name of the game in burns is teamwork," says Dr. Roger Yurt, the unit's director since...
...quickly became a personal responsibility," recalls Morton, a West Virginia native who worked the Great Lakes iron-ore and coal boats and served in the Navy before studying biology and psychology at Connecticut's Trinity College and getting his M.D. at Harvard. "I knew from the start I could treat these disorders, and I soon felt a great responsibility to these children without knowing how I could possibly care for them...
...other members of her order. By day, Doll works for two community-health clinics that care for about 1,300 children, most of them Mexican American, whose parents may work but may not necessarily have insurance. In the evening she teaches local nurse-practitioner students how to suture wounds, treat joint injuries and interpret X rays, among other things. "The call to nursing came first, followed by the spiritual call," she says. "Ever since I was in the first or second grade, I've wanted to reach out and help others...
...afterward returned to Africa. Her biggest problem was a sense of helplessness. "I remember someone saying, 'Don't worry. Jill is here,'" she says. "But I still couldn't do anything." In fact, she was trying to do just about everything. "She didn't just treat patients," says Marilyn McHarg, the current country manager for MSF-Holland in Nairobi. "She designed the protocols and the system for the treatment...