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...study at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Hanover, New Hampshire, five years ago proved the point. Dr. Mark P. Yeager randomly divided 53 intensive-care patients into two groups. One received morphine by ordinary intravenous catheters, while the other had morphine delivered epidurally, through a catheter placed near the spinal cord. The epidural patients, who were virtually pain-free, spent an average of just 2.5 days in the intensive- care unit and a total of 11.4 days in the hospital, while the other group required 5.7 days in the ICU and 15.8 days of hospitalization. In dollars, the difference...
...From Chuck Yeager: a $225 belt buckle
...values, courage and also a kind of competence and leadership." Bantam has a track record with such inspirational life stories. In 1984 it scored a success with Lee Iacocca's autobiography (2.6 million hard-cover sales in the U.S. and Canada), and it had another in 1985 with Chuck Yeager's right-stuff memoirs (1.2 million...
...paralyzed from the chest down in a diving accident 19 years ago. After logging 85,000 miles in one of these vans, Krauthammer just bought a customized $53,000 Dodge Caravan designed by Les Schofield of San Antonio's International Mobility Products. Krauthammer calls Schofield the "Chuck Yeager of rehab technology...
...December, an Eastern Airlines Boeing 727 with 104 passengers and six crew aboard was forced to land at Yeager Airport in Charleston, W.Va., after a 14-inch hole opened in its fuselage at 31,000 feet...