Word: wounded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Flash's problem seemed to be self-inflicted -- a bleeding stomach wound caused by his habit of chewing up and swallowing every splintery stick he could get his teeth on. But first the vet had to rule out rat poison and cancer with a blood test ($45) and a liver scan ($140). Then there was the emergency work-up ($45), followed by a catheter ($30), urinalysis ($22), a steroid injection and lab work to check organ function ($71); anesthesia ($345); an IV attached to a leg ($110); a biopsy ($45); upper and lower gastrointestinal endoscopy for fiber-optic images...
Instant patients start out peppy and joking. "But by the end of a few hours, most say, 'I'm exhausted,' " observes nurse Linda Bryant at Hunterdon. Schmitt discovered that "a major accomplishment was doing up my collar." And, to his surprise, "I wound up resenting physicians who didn't realize how much medication would cost and how hard it was to go and pick it up." Weiss also had an epiphany: "I realized how little I talk to patients. I might ask them about chest pains but not 'Can you get dressed, eat O.K., take your medicine?' " At Long Beach...
...tell you how much I wound up paying for my Marilyn letter because you'll think I'm a fool. (All right, I paid $7,500 -- more than I've ever spent on a car.) And I won't tell you how I managed to get the price down even that little bit. (All right, as part of the deal, I agreed to buy a second item, for even more -- a letter from Albert Einstein describing Hitler as a lunatic -- and so got a little bit of a break on both.) But I will tell you that when novices like...
Best thing to happen since Jacinda T. Townsend '92--who wound up in Newsweek for protesting the Confederate flag with creative logic by hanging a swastika from her window--became the Undergraduate Council's publicity chair. Presumably because the unimaginative bigot who scrawled "Faggot" on a Lowell House resident's room was otherwise engaged...
...year after it was formed, the Mayor's Committee on University-Community Relationships wound up its business by issuing a 44-page document...