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...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...
This afternoon the kids in the pediatric isolation ward have come together for something called Cell Mates. Most are bald and towing IV trees behind them as they gather. In Cell Mates they play games that help them come to terms with their diseases--with the blood cells that are failing them, the cancers and immune deficiencies that are attacking them, and the new replacement cells that are helping them. Many of the kids, like Caroline Strother, 6, are old hands at medical games. She swabs her doll's arm and prepares to insert a central line, but asks...