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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1990
Page
2
An ambulance carries a barefoot boy in a blood stained T shirt to the ER after a stabbing blamed on an older sibling. Nurse Dwight Barry calms him as his heart rate falls. Police photograph wounds before ICU transfer. Relatives express mixed feelings about the incident and parental care.
Doctors and nurses in the Odessa ER handle about 110 emergencies daily. The job demands emotional distance to cope with death, as aides recall a retired man who died of a heart attack and the nurse who had to comfort his wife while remaining professional.
In a hospital emergency room staff describe the emotional toll of handling deaths and near deaths. Aikey, a mother and observer of teen tragedies, reflects on the need for empathy without personal anguish. Nurses like Taylor recall pleas and heartbreak as families wait for news.
A nurse, Taylor, describes relief that a little boy is OK after a distressing case, and the emotional toll of caring for sick children. Colleagues discuss coping with trauma, humor, burnout, and remaining professional in a nonstop emergency room environment.
In the emergency room, Dr. Kenneth Adams and nurse McAfee describe the calling and strain of caring for frightened children and stressed families. They discuss burnout, the thrill of saving lives, and the need for flexible, compassionate care even when wait times test patience.
Partly cloudy to mostly fair conditions across West Texas and nearby zones with highs mainly in the mid to upper 80s or around 90, and nightly lows from the upper 50s to mid 60s. A slight chance of thunderstorms persists in Far West, Big Bend, and coastal inland areas, with warm, humid coastal zones nearing 90s inland.
Readings show Saturdays high of 88 with a 65 degree overnight low. Sunset at 7 55 p m today and 7 34 a m Monday sunrise. Precise last 24 hours and September precipitation total 2.12 inches. year to date 10.49 inches. Saturday record high 100 in 1965 and today’s record low 50 in 1951.
The National Weather Service at Midland International Airport forecasts mostly cloudy conditions today with a 40 percent chance of showers and thunder storms, a mid-80s high, and southeast winds 5 to 15 mph. Tonight, mostly a chance of thunderstorms with a mid-60s low. Monday will stay cloudy with low-80s highs as tropical humid weather continues with scattered storms through Monday. Some areas may have heavy downpours. skies in South Texas expect partly cloudy with afternoon showers and storms through Sunday.
New Mexico will see scattered showers and thunderstorms through Monday mainly over the central mountains and east with cooler air in the east. Temperatures range from the 30s and 40s in the mountains to the upper 40s through lower 60s at low elevations, with highs in the 60s to mid 70s in the central mountains and northeast and low to mid 80s in the southwest. Oklahoma will be partly cloudy and cooler on Monday with highs in the mid 80s to lower 90s and overnight lows from near 50 in the northwest to the mid 60s in the south.
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