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...need is a little more intense: If the healing miracle fails, what I accomplish in surgery is only to hurt someone who came to me for help. And I'm likely to feel more than emotional pain - plenty of juries can be convinced that an un-healing wound is sure evidence of malpractice. There's a whole lot on the line with a skin incision. And like most blessings, healing is not given much mind until it fails to occur. I learned this taking care of a patient named Manuel...
Sometime since his pre-op blood tests, Manuel had developed diabetes. Wound healing problems (though usually less dramatic than Manuel's) are often part of this disease, when the diabetes is uncontrolled - as it was in his case. The blood sugar test we did two weeks before the operation had been normal. It was quite high now. But Manuel started on insulin, stopped diuresing, got ruddy again and, to my great delight, closed up the cuts on his knee - all in the following week. He wasn't very happy about having to inject himself for the rest of his life...
...than 20 courses, reservations just continued going up. "You would think that increasing the Tour from $175 to $195 would have an effect on demand, but the overall percentage of Tours we sell on any given night has increased steadily," says co-owner Nick Kokonas. In fact, the restaurant wound up dropping its comparatively cheap $85 prix fixe meal, since no one was ordering...
...stars were aligned, and as the ninth inning wound down anticlimactically, I adopted a stoic attitude. The lukewarm champagne would be popped, the hoots and hollers would commence, and with the help of the relentlessly-advertised Cialis, as well as some surging testosterone from a World Series victory embellished by the Patriots Übermensch destruction of the Washington Redskins, many aging and rusty Bostonians would be getting lucky for possibly the first time since the Sox last won the Series (a paltry wait, in comparison to the 86-year drought that had preceded it). Drunken college students, and other...
Tuesday's two-hour convoy - which wound through more than four miles of bullet- and bomb-ridden city decimated by the very worst of the war - celebrated the life of Ramadi's favorite son, Sheik Sattar Abu Risha, the romantic icon of the region's sudden turn against al-Qaeda and Islamic extremists. Though Sattar was killed by an insurgent's bomb on Sept. 13, his "Awakening" movement lives on and his image adorned police cars, armored vehicles and city walls for Tuesday's parade marking the end of 40 days of mourning. Hundreds of Iraqi police officers and soldiers...