Word: waits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...efforts to investigate the racial health care gap, found that white people with kidney failure were about 4 percent more likely to want a transplant than are black people. But black people were more than 20 percent less likely to be referred for evaluation and placement on a transplant wait-list...
...study also found that many doctors failed to inform black patients about the possibility of receiving a kidney from a family member instead of going on a wait-list...
...same issue of the journal, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine researchers published a study on kidney transplants that found that patients at for-profit dialysis centers are less likely to get on transplant wait-lists than those at not-for-profit centers...
Early last week National Transportation Safety Board investigators took that theory seriously enough to consider handing the crash inquiry over to the FBI. But as soon as they heard the shocking suicide hypothesis, Egyptian officials, the Egyptian populace and most of the Arab world cried, "Wait...
...also become her town's volunteer Y2K coordinator, assembling a $1,000 emergency pantry in the community center--though, to her chagrin, almost none of her neighbors see the need to prepare. On the big night, she will have a party with 10 friends to watch TV...and wait: "Maybe we'll try out the photovoltaic stuff and use the Porta Potti...