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...decades, everybody in New Orleans knew the drill, from police and emergency medical responders to the patients who managed to get there on their own. In a mental health emergency, the destination of choice was the 24-hour crisis intervention unit at Charity Hospital in downtown New Orleans, where a team of specialists could quickly evaluate patients who were a potential danger to themselves or others, stabilize those that could be medicated and referred to one of the city's outpatient clinics and admit the hardest cases to the hospital's psychiatric ward, where the 96 beds were fully occupied...
...crisis prompted Mayor Ray Nagin this week to issue an impassioned plea to Louisiana's Governor, Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, for a centrally located crisis intervention unit, either in a reopened third floor at Charity or in a designated section of University Hospital, an L.S.U. medical school affiliate that houses the city's only trauma center and where, on one recent night, 18 of the emergency department's 23 beds were occupied by mental health patients. "These patients are still getting their medical evaluations in a routine emergency department. But then they are left there," says Cathi Fontenot, the hospital...
...Jabar's battalion is set to leave the area soon, to be replaced by a unit run by one of his prot?g?s. But beyond the fairness and effectiveness of individual Iraqi units is the political reality of a Shi'ite-dominated government that sends Shi'ite soldiers, some of dubious affiliation, to operate in dangerous Sunni neighborhoods. Ghazaliya is calmer now because Sunnis are putting their faith in the U.S. military, a force destined to leave as soon as it possibly can. When the Americans are gone, however, the mistrust between Iraqis will remain...
...bitter mountain cold, knew it was going to be bad news. "I thought it was going to be a major problem," he says. "Maybe another 9/11." While the subject of the meeting was nothing like the 2001 terrorist attacks, for the soldiers of the 3rd Squadron, 71st Calvary unit of the 10th Mountain Division, it may have similar consequences. Two days before the brigade was due to leave Afghanistan after its year-long stint - some units, in fact, were already in Kuwait awaiting flights home - Captain Polk and his team learned that their tour had been extended another four months...
...five-iron or making a speech, the best results come from letting go a little, lowering the bar just a touch. But could that principle extend to doctors treating patients? "At medical school, I was taught to aim for perfection," says Anthony Rodgers, director of the clinical trials research unit at the University of Auckland. But now Rodgers and others are preparing to show that, when it comes to preventing heart attack and stroke, the way forward for doctors may be to fuss less over drugs and dosages and instead prescribe, for everyone, a single, multi-function pill...