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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Highest bid so far at Microsoft's charity campaign to win a tour of the mansion. Visit includes refreshments and quality time with Bill...
...hospital may be the most fascinating place we never want to visit. We know there are triumphs here: fingers reattached, lungs replaced and babies born, small enough to bathe in a big teacup, who would have had no chance 10 years ago but who now go home and grow up. Maybe they will become doctors too. But it is also a war zone, and if you are not fighting the enemy or loading the weapons or plotting the next campaign, you can hardly understand what a brave, brutal, mysterious place this really...
Each room the doctors visit is a living lesson in modern medicine. In 7213 the heart of a 71-year-old woman is pumping a dangerously low volume of blood. "What is the right therapy?" asks Ohman. They agree that a drug is required to slow the beat, giving the woman's heart more time to fill. Right, pronounces Ohman. Which drug? They stumble with answers until Ohman says it's Esmolol. That surprises one of the young physicians. Esmolol, he notes, could cost as much as $200 a day, while alternatives can be had for $1.50 a pill. Ohman...
Even if you don't watch much TV, the hospital marketers will find you. You may open your mailbox and find one of Duke's slick, multicolored brochures. Or you may visit your kid's school and have to shoo away Twinkle, WakeMed's man-in-a-plush-yellow-star mascot, who brings joy to the hearts of youngsters--and (not incidentally) stirs up business for WakeMed's Children's Center...
...Heart Center includes an attractive built-in hotel that allows families to stay in the hospital while the patient undergoes surgery. Duke has shifted its primary-care physicians out of the main building to satellite locations, since focus groups show that patients want street-level parking when they visit doctors they see regularly...