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...regimen of at-home doctors' visits can ward off some of those problems. "We get call after call from desperate relatives," says Constance Row, executive director of the American Academy of Home Care Physicians, a national organization based in Edgewood, Md., that lists on its website aahcp.org doctors and other providers, like nurse-practitioners and physician assistants, who make house calls. "Often it's a son or daughter-in-law trying to find care for a parent in another part of the country," she says. "Other times it's the spouse of someone who needs care, and they are unable...
...always brave. He saw the same courage in the young soldiers he befriended in rehabilitation, and he writes movingly about them in his new book, Blood Brothers. Michael is the first to say his own suffering barely compares with that of the soldiers he came to know on Ward 57 of Walter Reed Army Medical Center. As he notes in the story, he lost his hand, but the soldiers lost their youth, and much more...
...Ghosh says that Baghdad's residents are experiencing "Life in Hell." Iraq isn't exactly paradise, but perhaps Ghosh should have spent time in other places, say, Darfur, the Ninth Ward of New Orleans or Iraq under Saddam Hussein. William West Fairborn, Ohio...
...made more sense to me than any of those delusional claims of "Mission Accomplished." Larry Maysack Haymarket, Virginia, U.S. Ghosh says that Baghdad's residents are experiencing "Life in Hell." Iraq isn't exactly paradise, but perhaps Ghosh should have spent time in other places, say, Darfur, the Ninth Ward of New Orleans or Iraq under Saddam Hussein. William West Fairborn, Ohio, U.S. Of all the accounts coming out of Iraq, this article has best captured the des- pair and fear gripping the citizens of a country that is no longer a country. It's unfortunate that this stark reality...
...special piquancy, because the defendants were all cogs in the old Paris political machine of Jacques Chirac, who served 18 years as mayor of Paris before being elected President of France in 1995. And the accused are only the latest in a string of alleged bagmen, vote-riggers and ward-heelers charged with wrongdoing during Chirac's city hall tenure - two of Chirac's closest aides are among those already convicted in connection with kickback and party financing charges. As President, Chirac enjoys immunity from prosecution, but new elections are set for May, and there is scant chance that Chirac...