Extra, Extra

- Should you rent, or buy?
- Did construction at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center lead to the death of two little girls? One lawyer wants to know.
-There was a three car pile-up on E 65th yesterday.
-A 27 year coke-probe just produced a cash windfall. Our favorite quote: "In one case, a fingerprint on a beer can in a Jamaica Estates drug den matched a Colombia passport seized in Bayside that belonged to a dealer in Argentina who was working out of a Baltimore warehouse packed with drugs."
- The five west-side slips on Manhattan were full yesterday so a British cruise-ship instead landed in Red Hook. Six months before the $45 million terminal is supposed to open. Don't worry, Bloomberg was there shake hands.
-It's not your imagination, the Fall TV season really is starting again.
- And, uhm, San Gennaro ends tonight.

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By Garth Johnston in Miscellaneous on September 25, 2005 5:10 PM

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sp

Europe and Cuba have the highest standards of medecine in the world.

rb

I have to concur with dirty hospital rooms. I was taken by ambulance to St. Vincent's midtown a couple months ago and was horrified by how dirty it was. I was ill in the bathroom and could hardly bring myself to throw up in the toilet, it was so disgusting.

In addition, they wouldn't let me leave the hospital until I gave them a urine sample, but I'd been vomiting copiously and was dehydrated--they hadn't even brought me anything to drink in five hours. I had to beg and then threaten for a saline IV. Once I got it, I gave them the sample and got the hell out of there. It was by far the dirtiest, most crowded, and unsanitary hospital I've ever been in, and that includes European and Middle Eastern hospitals.