Word: ward
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William Hunter, called "Todd" but also known to wrestling fans in his hometown of Greenville, S.C., as "Shotgun Shane Sawyer," sees the light of day for the first time in nearly a week. Above the television set on the wall opposite his bed in the surgical ICU ward, he also sees something else: an angel...
...insurer, PHP, had a contract with Duke to do liver transplants. Trotter, according to Rubin, said he recognized PHP as a Duke contractor and arranged to have a plane pick Hunter up in Charleston. It was nearly midnight, Sept. 2, when Hunter checked in to the surgical ICU ward at Duke in Durham...
...says, by a full voice-mail queue. She wants her husband to stay at Duke under the care of Drs. Trotter and Tuttle, whom she trusts. When a woman at PHP she believes was Brown finally returned her call Tuesday afternoon on the pay phone near the surgery ward, her message to Kim was that PHP "had a deal" with Duke that if it hadn't transplanted Todd over the weekend, it would move him to unc. "It felt like they were trying to make me doubt the doctors," says...
...talk of a new "global financial architecture" that would preserve a relatively free flow of capital while reducing the volatility of world financial markets. Says Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin: "Clearly, the time has come to build a stronger system." Among his proposals: speedier IMF loans to help countries ward off economic crises, and more honest public record-keeping by governments so investors can tell which nations are sound...
Baker has never done a death. He is 25, tall, with solemn, deep blue eyes and a wispy Vandyke. A divinity grad student from Roxie, Miss., he has 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...