Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think it's vital that the contract negotiation team has a say on the board and that the board have a say on the contract negotiations," she said...
...effort. That's what we did last year when TIME sought to explore the mood of late-century America by sending a team of journalists rolling from town to town and coast to coast along U.S. Highway 50. This week we take a similar high-impact approach to the vital subject of healing, in a 36-page special report on a week in the life of one of the nation's premier teaching hospitals. That institution, Duke University Medical Center in North Carolina, agreed to play host to 14 of our journalists, who examined everything from the effects of managed...
...spent his first two weeks here on a ward that has thus far seen no deaths. But tonight, from 6 p.m. until 6 a.m., he is the on-call chaplain for the entire hospital. In his pocket is a sky-blue beeper that will sound the moment someone's vital signs fail. He wonders how he will respond. Last night's on-call was faced with the death of an eight-year-old boy mangled by dogs. "I don't know if I could have..." Baker begins and then trails...
DCRI has been designed to find vital but frequently obscure medical information. Califf's favorite illustration involves an antiarrhythmia drug that had passed clinical trials, was approved by the FDA and was being given to thousands of patients before it was discovered that the drug was killing some patients. "You'd think that doctors would notice people falling over dead," says Califf. "But these things happen over years." These problems not only happen over time; they also often happen in patients who had other medical conditions that might have killed them. And they happen amid a large pool of people...
Rosenthal said that to combat the further spread of germs, Harvard Dining Services has been instructed to pay close attention to the cleanliness of dishware, dining halls and food. Such steps can be vital in preventing widespread illness, he said...