The audience walked out of the theater starving, and the actors walked away from the set sick".
Remarkable for Ginger downing an enemy aircraft with a 20lb tin of corned beef, Biggles Flies North shares some characteristics with John Buchan's doomy Canada-set Sick Heart River (1941).
The first song from the set, "Sick Man of Europe," has been released on YouTube; the title is interesting to diehard fans, because it's the name Rick Nielsen gave the band in the early seventies, when Randy Hogan was still the lead vocalist.
The whimsical, sometimes bizarre program, set during sick days and hazy summers off, focussed on the fantastical exploits of two carrot-topped brothers named Pete.
Memories of my Aunt Roy's apartment in the Bronx flashed through my mind when I saw the stage setting of "Sick," Zayd Dohrn's prickly new play receiving a stellar production at New Jersey Repertory Company in Long Branch.
Afterward, the Japanese set their sick and starving American and Filipino captives on a 66-mile walk under a broiling sun to prison camp, an infamous trek now known as the Bataan Death March.
In addition, the isolation of organisms is dependant on adequate blood volumes and rapid transport to the microbiology laboratory, both of which may have been limited in the setting of sick, malnourished children in a resource-limited hospital.
Empiric treatment in patients with pandemic (H1N1) 2009 should be considered in those seeking treatment for influenza-like symptoms, especially in the setting of sick contacts with respiratory illnesses.
If a staff member with a professional skill set was sick or unavailable, there was "no one ready to step into that person's shoes" without the need for extensive training.
In addition, she said in an e-mail, "We are seeing precipitous drops in admissions for all three of these conditions, and we suspect it is because the patients who are relatively well are being better managed in the ambulatory setting". The sicker patients, she said, are admitted and are more likely to end up back in the hospital.
