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Winsick's doctors at the Long Beach, California, VA hospital discovered a benign tumor growing in his brain five years ago but decided he could not survive surgery to remove it because of a heart condition, which had required a quadruple by-pass operation. Fortunately, there was a life-saving alternative: he could undergo "gamma knife" radiation. The VA hospital didn't offer that particular treatment, but the nearby private Hospital of the Good Samaritan did. Winsick's VA doctors set out to arrange VA funding for Winsick's treatment there...
Five years later, they are still trying. VA bureaucrats insist that Winsick does not qualify for such funding and should rely on his Medicare medical coverage. But Winsick, thinking he was covered by the VA, never signed up for Medicare. He is eligible to sign up in January 1996, but his coverage will not begin until next July. By then he could be dead. "I fought in the war, and I was a prisoner," says Winsick. "I expected humane treatment afterward. I'm getting shafted...
Reading a list recently compiled by the Media Research Center of Alexandria, Va. was one of those liberal moments. the Media Research Center, despite its objective-sounding name, is a conservative watchdog group. Earlier this month, they put out a Top 10 list of, to quote a Arkansas Democrat-Gazette media columnist, "the most egregiously offensive liberal series and [television] movies of the 1994-95 season...
...level sort of memory can be involuntarily revived with terrible clarity by abnormal activity in the amygdala. "It's been an eye opener to me that individuals we study who were traumatized 25 years ago still show abnormal brain function," says Dennis Charney, head of psychiatry at the VA hospital in West Haven, Connecticut. "Severe stress can change the way your brain functions biologically...
...FACE) Act.The law makes it a federal crime to block access to abortion clinics or intimidate either clients or clinic staff members. Without comment, the Justices let stand a federal appeals court ruling against Joyce Woodall, an anti-abortion demonstrator who was arrested after kneeling against a Falls Church, Va., clinic door and praying. Woodall's appeal said the law was unconstitutional in limiting anti-abortion speech or expression, but Justice Department lawyers said it "regulates conduct, not speech...