Find the cure for cancer, tend to the sick, nurse the elderly, take care of the children: whatever.

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Recently, the poor health of one of the hospital's staff members compromised the well-being of Amy's son: "On Saturday, as I woke up, I noticed that our nurse was sick, " she says.

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The Yankees declined to make their medical staff available, but players say that once illness strikes, team doctors and trainers treat their charges with the same basic techniques a school nurse would use to treat a class full of sick kids.

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Lazarescu, who has a splitting headache and is sick to his stomach, is picked up by an ambulance and entrusted to the care of a sympathetic nurse, but, like some awkward, undeliverable package, he gets shunted from hospital to hospital and from specialist to specialist, each more callous and vain than the last.

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