Word: wards
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...disease was, much less how to treat it. But as chief of medicine at San Francisco's General Hospital, infectious-diseases expert Merle Sande recognized the impending epidemic and began putting together a plan for tackling the disease. By 1983 he had successfully lobbied for a dedicated hospital ward for AIDS patients. He also helped develop the "San Francisco model" of treatment, which emphasized infection control and research financing, becoming a blueprint for clinics nationwide. He was 68 and had multiple myeloma...
...used to be difficult to know who would and who would not be its victims, cancer is easier to predict these days. Its causes are actually very well understood, and many types of the disease are preventable - which helps to explain why braggadocio isn't heard in the oncology ward, a place full of regret. Picture yourself lying in one as your dumbstruck spouse and children hover over the bed. Are you really going to tell them you're glad that you ate the wrong foods, never set foot on a treadmill and never stopped smoking? That...
...month will not be criminally charged, the Los Angeles District Attorney's office said Tuesday. The 10-year-old boy had admitted to police that he had started the fire accidentally while playing with matches Oct. 21. Had he been charged with arson, he could have been made a ward of the state under California...
...contact seniors make their lists at different times, but they aren’t complete until the students who studied abroad are back,” says Winnie.Again, the general lack of centralization in the process has not only become a nuisance for study abroad alumni, but could potentially ward away future study abroad applicants. “I don’t know whose fault it is, honestly,” Feuer admits, “They need to centralize the process if they really want to encourage study abroad and make both sides of the process enjoyable...
...look at this video and try to make some sense of its weirdness. The video follows Whiteman as he takes an escorted tour throughout an office building. Or, at least I think it’s an office building—it could just as likely be a mental ward. Either way, he encounters a room filled with animals, a movie theater showing a screening of an erratic car crash, and a discotheque. To top it all off, the video ends with Whiteman following a flock of flying birds and aiming a bow and arrow toward a road congested...