Archive: Spring 2008
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 Through June 27: The fight to make hand washing routine is documented in "Coming Clean," and exhibit of the University of Virginia's Historical Collections at the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. Featured items include nineteenth-century antituberculosis posters and modern hand sanitizer ads.
July 1 : Medicare reimbursements are scheduled to be cut by 10.6%. Physician groups worry that this decrease, the deepest ever, will force doctors to stop accepting new Medicare patients or to opt out of the system entirely.
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After a terrorist attack, it seems to photographer Diane Covert, victims are forgotten in the rash of questions about perpetrators and motives. For her exhibit “Inside Terrorism: The X-Ray Project,” Covert collected images from two medical centers in Jerusalem and transferred them to Duratrans film so they could be viewed in daylight. The grotesque effects of homemade bombs appear in neat clinical detail: a nail in the throat, hex nuts in hips and, as shown, a watch that partially severed the victim’s carotid artery and lodged in her neck.
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Diane Covert; The original documents in this exhibit were provided by Hadassah Ein Kerem Medical Center and Shaare Zedek Medical Center, both in Jerusalem. "The X-Ray Project" is partially sponsored by The David Project. |
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