Five Patients: The Hospital ExplainedA construction worker in his fifties is seriously injured in the collapse of a scaffold....A middle-aged railroad dispatcher develops a high fever that makes him wildly delirious....A young worker nearly severs his hand from his arm in an accident....A woman traveling alone has persistent chest pains and is treated by a doctor on a TV screen....A mother of three is diagnosed with a deadly disease.... |
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NOW AND THEN | 3 |
THE COST OF CURE | 35 |
MEDICAL TRANSITION | 113 |
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