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...accompanied by a local high official, a very well-respected Kazakh. Once late at night, we were squatting in a circle in a yurt with the rest of the men. It was a place where there were no roads, just people moving in their yearly cycle with their camels and horses. Then the official started reciting the oral history of the Kazakhs," he says...
...unit is at Manhattan's New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center and consists of some 100 doctors, nurses, therapists, social workers and dieticians who treat 1,300 patients a year in the unit's 46-bed facility. "The name of the game in burns is teamwork," says Dr. Roger Yurt, the unit's director since...
...Yurt, 52, began specializing in burn treatment while he was a doctor in the U.S. Army. Since he took over the burn unit, he has expanded the team to include highly specialized nurses and even a chaplain, who ministers not only to patients and their families but also to staff members, who are exposed daily to unnerving sights and suffering...
...There is clearly a period at least early on where patients are not getting any type of pain relief," explains director Yurt. "It's too risky. You don't want to give them too much morphine. Otherwise they'll drop their blood pressure." Once the blood pressure stabilizes, however, doctors can begin dripping morphine directly into the veins, gradually increasing the dosage if the pain persists. Still, Yurt admits, "we can never relieve the pain completely...
...events in Budyonnovsk overshadowed good news last week for the Kremlin from the Chechen front. Russian forces seized the strategic villages of Shatoi and Nojai-Yurt, the last two major strongholds of Dudayev's forces. But the surprise Chechen raid on Russian territory signaled that for desperate fighters like Basayev, who has lost his wife and almost all his family in the war, the grudge match with Moscow is far from over. In fact, Budyonnovsk may be the opening skirmish in a new guerrilla war, waged on the streets of towns and cities across Russia...