Word: warded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reviewer for Ward Just's book Military Men [Feb. 8] ended with the question: "In the complex, chaotic America of today, can a citizen's army really work?" The answer is implicit in Just's book. It is that military men are not citizens of the U.S. They live "on post," a country on the other side of guard gates and cable fences, a land with its own doctrine and traditions, its own norms for dress and grooming, its own schools, its own ideas of the past and future, its own newspapers with their own ideas about...
Crichton's drama follows five patients (surprise!) whose bodies find their way into the hospital for various reasons. Patient one is a construction worker who is rushed into the emergency ward after an accident. His heart has stopped and the medical teams try bravely to save his life, but fail. Following a dramatic account of the medical effort, Crichton offers a heavy dose of "what this all means" in the context of a changing hospital system. "What this all means" unfortunately has little to do with modern health care and has even less that is not so obvious...
Last September, the University Health Services (UHS) set up a Drug Task Force of 15 second-year Harvard Medical students. They oversee Stillman Infirmary's emergency ward desk and answer phone calls on a drug "hot line...
During the first semester, Stillman's emergency ward averaged three phone calls and/or visits per week dealing with drug problems. Since intercession, however, the number of drug cases has plummeted to nearly zero...
Another Medical student on the Task Force, Richard J. Stadtmiller, offered a theory for the lack of drug cases in the emergency ward. "It's just possible that most people can handle their drug trips and don't need anybody...