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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Laurie Tarkan / The Bulletin
December 2, 2008
It was the middle of the night, and Laura Silverthorn, a nurse at a hospital in Washington, knew her patient was in danger. The boy had a shunt in his brain to drain fluid, but he was vomiting and had an extreme headache, two signs that the shunt was blocked. When she paged the on-call resident,....
