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...five days, says Lennie Jernigan, an attorney, "we prayed for our daughter with a passion uncommon to both of us. And we waited for the diagnosis." The parents agreed to exploratory surgery, which carried a 1-in-5 chance of leaving Elizabeth permanently brain damaged. Surgeons removed part of the tumor from the nerve that controls the movement of the right eye. Trying to get at the rest of it was too dangerous. But when they were finished and the pathology reports came back, the news could not possibly have been worse. Their baby was suffering from an extremely rare...
...uncommon for a youngster who hasexperienced a lot of physical and emotional abuseto react to that sooner or later with an outburstof violence," the psychiatrist said. "She surelydid not have a major mental illness and was notinsane. Her behavior was related to the kind ofenvironmental and emotional stresses she hadsuffered over the years...
...challenge ahead will be to deliver care at a reasonable price without compromising safety. Perhaps the only benefit of highly publicized cases like Betsy Lehman's is that they will spur hospitals to strengthen the safeguards needed to keep such tragedies as uncommon as possible...
There it is not uncommon for singers to feast on five-course meals consisting of "everything from rack of lamb, to exotic fish dishes and seafood to the world's best desserts," says Werner J. Kienberger, manager of the four-star Four Ways Inn in Bermuda...
...paper every day it is necessary to change and cut and add and delete, and frankly it's not uncommon for writers to read their papers in the morning with as much curiosity as to the final outcome of a story as do their sources...