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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without ThinkingThere was only one bathroom for these hallways filled with patients, so people would be walking up and down, dragging their IVs. Then there were the nursesБЂ™ bells that you buzzed to get a nurse. But of course there werenБЂ™t enough nurses, so the bells would constantly be going, ringing and ringing. Try listening to someoneБЂ™s heart or lungs in that setting. It was a crazy place.БЂ« Reilly had begun his medical career at the medical center at Dartmouth College, a beautiful, prosperous state-of-the-art hospital nestled in the breezy, rolling hills of New Hampshire. West Harrison Street was another world. БЂњThe first summer I was here was the summer of ninety-five, when Chicago had a heat wave that killed hundreds of people, and of course the hospital wasnБЂ™t air-conditioned,БЂ« Reilly remembers. БЂњThe heat index inside the hospital was a hundred and twenty. We had patientsБЂ”sick patientsБЂ”trying to live in that environment. One of the first things I did was grab one of the administrators and just walk her down the hall and have her stand in the middle of one of the wards ...» |
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