Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cambridge Police Captain Alfred E. Marckini said the man continued driving after he had been shot and later appeared at Boston City Hospital for treatment. The youth said that he had been injured in a fracas earlier...
...month-old baby is turned away from a private hospital in Houston because her husband does not have $50 for a deposit. The baby dies on the way across town to an other hospital. A New York doorman suffers a heart attack while on duty; he is refused emergency treatment at a hospital across the street because it lacks cardiac emergency equipment, and he must risk death attempting to reach another hospital...
Dumping the Sick. At New Yorks Coney Island Hospital recently, a combination of delayed treatment and the common practice of "dumping" emergency patients on other hospitals contributed to the deaths of two men. The emergency-room diagnosis for one was gastrointestinal hemorrhage and shock. Claiming a lack of beds, the hospital ordered the patient transferred to a larger institution. Still waiting for transfer three hours later, the man died. An other patient died after waiting six hours to be dumped. Subsequently, New York State's Investigation Commission found that on one of the patients' entry cards, the word...
Medical regulations can also stand in the way of proper emergency treatment. When former Speaker of the House Joe Martin fell into a coma in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., last month, his doctor ordered an ambulance service to take him to a distant hospital, by passing one eight blocks away because the doctor was not affiliated there. Reported dead by the ambulance driver when he arrived, Martin, 83, was then taken to a third hospital, 15 miles away, for an autopsy. There he was officially pronounced dead on arrival. His life might have been saved had he been taken...
...appears that the much-derided sonic treatment of crops may indeed be a sound agricultural technique. A Canadian woman scientist working under carefully controlled laboratory conditions has found that sound-treated wheat seedlings grow three times as large as those given conventional care...