Little Relief on Ward 53
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On the military plane that crossed the ocean at night, the wounded lay in stretchers stacked three high. The drone of engines was broken by the occasional sound of moaning. Sedated and sleeping, Pfc. Joshua Calloway was at the top of one stack last September. Unlike the others around him, Calloway...
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LOS ANGELES -- County supervisors recommended Monday that problem-plagued Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center drop its trauma services as part of a &quot;comprehensive rescue plan&quot; to lighten the load in its emergency department.
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By DAVID BAUDER  NEW YORK - At Showtime, the bosses are accustomed to having a very narrow window of opportunity.
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Owners of the Pleasant East apartments in East Harlem are done with renovations. But, as Jake Mooney found for this week's Dispatches feature, residents there say they still have reasons to be nervous.
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The UAW action is much ado about not very much.
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By Christian Hill, The Olympian, Olympia, Wash.  Sep. 25--There might be as many proposed solutions to downtown issues of loitering, panhandling and public safety as there are cities dealing with them.   There is "no magic bullet.
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On the eastern side of the District, you've got three hospitals that are too small and too limited in the services they offer, with not enough private doctors sending insured (read: paying) patients their way.
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As property tax bills hit Chicago mailboxes next week, most will deliver a lighter thud than before. Don&#39;t get too excited -- that thud will gradually get heavier.
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There is a place for it, some say, but it won't do everything.
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I am disappointed (but not surprised) to hear of the problems with the proposed transit tax in Salt Lake County. I was torn when voting for the tax increase in November.
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Distraught staff receive counselling over unpaid bill
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First it was St. Paul&#39;s on Burrard St., which had to start closing wards last week due to the illness. And now it&#39;s struck the BC Children&#39;s Hospital.
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Democrats suffering a potent post-election hangover of bewilderment and despair have sought but found little relief in morning-after messages of defiance at President George W. Bush's re-election.
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I guess I'm the bad boy of heart attack survivors. Mine played like low comedy from the start. It felt not like shearing pain; I had no revelations of mortality and sense of endtimes and lost opportunities. Actually, it seemed Bill Clinton was sitting on my chest playing the saxophone.
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Comment is free: Catherine Bennett: Even as the capital suffers at the hands of its mayor, his would-be successors offer little hope
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Everything in Ward 3D East is locked, even the windows. Located inside the District of Columbia VA Medical Center, only three miles from the Veterans Affairs headquarters where national health policies are made, the psychiatric ward is a refuge for mentally ill homeless veterans and those plagued...
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The use of physical restraints on nursing home patients has dropped by nearly a quarter in two years and fewer residents report suffering from pain, according to a report released yesterday by the Bush administration.