John
Whipple |
(clockwise
from top left) David Baker, who lost his wife to a medical
error in 2003, said he believed a program called Sorry
Works, which asks doctors and the hospitals they serve
to take responsibility for accidents, could help him
learn why the error occurred; Metroland reporter
Travis Durfee spent a month in Afghanistan at an eye-care
mission run by Delmar physician Tom Little (inset),
and witnessed crowds of Afghans fighting for appointment
cards; residents of Albany’s Center Square held a “Park
In” this April to remind commuters that the neighborhoods
around the Capitol aren’t just another parking lot;
in Troy, 9-year-old Taylor O’ Brien bid farewell to
her 58-year-old grandfather, Pvt. Robert Kappes, who
was deployed to Iraq this May as part of the largest
single deployment of National Guardsmen to combat since
World War II; Mohammed Hossain, one of two local Muslim
imams accused of laundering money for a terrorist plot
in August, was released on bail after a judge declared
that the government’s case wasn’t as strong as the Federal
Bureau of Investigation first presented it.
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