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Dose of reality
ABC mini-series invades Baltimore hospital
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NEW YORK (AP) — Amid the tension of the emer
gency room. Dr. Edward Cornwell lectures a belligerent
gang member who has been shot in the back — even as
he tries to save the young man’s life.
, Later, he takes a group of boys from a tough Baltimore
*! neighborhood to meet another shooting victim stuck in a
hospital bed, showing how the culture
of guns and violence is not glamorous
Rjlike in the movies.
Cornwell moves with the self-as-
"isurance of an actor, even if he lacks
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{sheets. Or the bullet wounds. Or Corn-
•well himself, the chief of trauma
surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital in
Baltimore. In the summer of reality
television, he is as real as it gets, and one of the stars of
a remarkable six-part documentary series on ABC that
debuts Wednesday at 10 p.m.
“Hopkins 24/7” depicts the inner workings of the
Baltimore hospital in a narrative style with all the dra
ma of “ER.”
The camera follows a 14-year-old girl as she learns
she has uterine cancer; a deaf child who wakes up from
surgery and hears for the first time; a first-year intern
struggling through a 100-hour workweek; and doctors
meeting to discuss why patients died during surgery.
Phyllis McGrady, senior vice president of ABC News,
first conceived the idea in 1993 and finally conquered the
logistical mountains to get it done.
A family health emergency had forced her to spend a
lot of time in a hospital.
“I realized there was an entirely different world than
any world that 1 had ever heard of,” she said. It consumed
the people who worked or were treated there, almost to
the point they were cut off from the outside world.
To be able to tell the story, ABC
needed a hospital willing to give the
network unfettered — and probably
unprecedented — access.
ABC approached administrators at
Hopkins and, after months of internal
discussion, the hospi tal decided to
take the leap of faith.
“We were very separate entities,”
McGrady said. “We were not partners
in this project. I said to them, ‘We
need to see what happens in the hos
pital, warts and all.’ ”
Ronald Peterson, president of Johns Hopkins Hospi
tal and Health Systems, said he considered it a valuable
way to illustrate some of the issues his institution faces:
health care in an urban setting, the rigors of training doc
tors and treating people while being squeezed by insur
ance companies.
! ‘We’re cognizant that there are some potential risks
along the way,” he said. “But we really think that we’re
doing a service, not only to our institution, but to the aca
demic medical industry at large and to the people being
served by the institution.”
Peterson seemed visibly relieved — as if he had wait
ed weeks to exhale — after viewing piortions of the pre
miere episode for the first time.
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what happens in
the hospital,
warts and all”
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BOYS TOWN, Neb. (AP) — The
man most famous for bulging bi
ceps, Terminator movies and Plan
et Hollywood restaurants has been
recognized for his
lesser-known role
as a mentor to
disadvantaged
youth.
Arnold
Schwarzenegger
became the lat
est recipient of a
Boys Town youth
service, award
Monday, following in the footsteps
of Mother Teresa and basketball
great Michael Jordan.
Schwarzenegger is the 16th re
cipient of the Father Flanagan
Award, but he is the first to receive
it under the home’s new name,
which was extended to Girls and
Boys Town last week.
“This is so special to me,” he
said. “It’s so important that this
comes from an organization that
has spent almost 100 years ... to
help so many children.”
1 The award recognized
Schwarzenegger’s work promoting
physical fitness. Many of the 1,200
in attendance had won a competi
tion to be able to ask the actor a
question.
His first question was a simple
one: Is he sometimes afraid to do
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was just as simple.
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ciding is, ‘Can you die?”’ he dead-
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Parks’ inducted
into Ala. Academy
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) —
| Rosa Parks’ home state has hon-
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day civil rights movement.
Parks, 87, was inducted into the
Alabama Academy of Honor on
Monday, but poor health kept her
from traveling from her home in De
troit to receive the honor.
“She appreciates being honored
in her hometown for the work she
has done,” said longtime friend
Johnnie Carr, who stood in for Parks
during the ceremony at the state
Capitol.
The Alabama Academy of Honor
recognizes 100 living Alabamians,
plus all living Alabama governors,
for their contributions to the state.
The current members elect each
year’s new class; the latest in
ductees replace four who died in
the past year.
Parks was riding a city bus after
leaving her job as a Montgomery
seamstress on Dec. 1,1955, when
she refused to
give up a seat to a
white passenger.
Her arrest
sparked the Mont
gomery Bus Boy
cott, where blacks
refused to ride city
buses for 381
days. The boycott
catapulted a
young Montgomery minister, the
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., to na
tional prominence and led to a U.S.
Supreme Court decision desegre
gating public transportation.
Trial date set for
Marshall estate
HOUSTON (AP) — A judge has
scheduled a trial date for former
Playboy Playmate Anna Nicole
Smith’s battle to get a portion of
her late husband’s estimated $1.6
billion estate.
Selection of 12 jurors and four
alternates will begin Sept. 22 with
opening arguments likely six days
later, Harris County Probate Judge
Mike Wood said Monday.
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Smith claims she is entitled to
part of. the estate of oil tycoon J.
Howard Marshall II, who died at age
90 in 1995, 14 months after he
married the former stripper he met
in a topless club.
One of Marshall’s sons, J.
Howard Marshall III of Los Angeles,
also is staking a claim, saying his
father made an oral promise to in
clude him in the inheritance.
Both he and Smith are battling
Marshall’s other son, E. Pierce Mar
shall, who was the sole heir named
in the last of six wills the elder Mar
shall wrote.
Pierce Marshall also asserts his
father already had transferred to
him most of Ihis assets before dy
ing. According to Pierce Marshall,
the estate was worth far less than
$1 billion.
A federal bankruptcy judge in
Los Angeles said last month he is
close to ruling on whether Smith,
who uses the name Vickie Lynn
Marshall in court, is due money on
a separate claim against Pierce
Marshall.
Seeger diagnosed
with Lyme disease
BEACON, N.Y. (AP) — Folk singer
and activist Pete Seeger has been
diagnosed with Lyme disease, his
wife says.
Toshi Seeger, reached by tele
phone Monday at the couple’s
home in Beacon, said her husband
had been feeling sick and recently
learned of the diagnosis.
Lyme disease is caused by a mi
crobe that is spread to humans
through a tick bite. The disease can
cause headache, fever, stiff joints
and fatigue. It can be treated ef
fectively with antibiotics.
Mrs. Seeger said it is not yet
clear how severe a case Seeger
has contracted.
She said her husband was rest
ing at home Monday. He hopes to
keep all his performing commit
ments, she said.
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