July 2007On March 2, a bus carrying the Bluffton University baseball team plunged off a Northside Drive overpass and crashed onto I-75, about 30 feet below. The accident killed seven people and injured many more. As horrific as the day was for the Ohio university's players, coaches and their families, another team -- Atlanta's emergency services workers -- was there to support them.
Tony Trimble, an emergency medical technician and a nurse at Grady Memorial Hospital, was pouring the morning's first cup of coffee when the dispatch call came in ... more
Don't expect to find garbage cans, toasters, garden supplies or many over-the-counter medications at East Marietta Drug Co.
You can find greeting cards, but cosmetic products are kept to a minimum. This isn't Walgreens, CVS or Eckerd, where film-developing centers and beauty counters can take up as much space as the prescription counters. It's tough to run an independent pharmacy like East Marietta Drug Co. these days. To compete with the big chains, you have to fill a niche they don't fill ... more
Kathy Shaw has the perfect antidote for her busy schedule as a clinical instructor at the Medical College of Georgia School of Nursing in Athens. Twice a week she perches atop a trapeze bar and dances.
"Trapeze dancing is more like Cirque du Soleil than Barnum & Bailey," said Shaw, RN, MSN. "We're not swinging high overhead with a big net below, or catching each other like traditional circus trapeze performers ... more