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Just before midnight on February 20, 2003, a terrible fire broke out in a crowded Rhode Island nightclub. It killed almost 100 people immediately and left more than 200 injured, many of them critically. My 350-bed community hospital is two miles from the nightclub.

A friend of mine who was a firefighter before he became a doctor rushed to the scene and saw scores of injured and panicked people, some packing their wounds in snow in an attempt to relieve their pain. He called the hospital and, over the poor connection of a cell phone, told us, "The state won't . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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From the Critical Care Medicine Department, Kent County Hospital, Warwick, R.I.

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