Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...medical techniques have increased the need for hospital employees by 34% per patient. Result: the average daily cost to the patient has climbed 132%, from $9.39 to $21.76, or almost four times faster than prices in general. ¶ Increased efficiency has cut the average patient's stay in bed from 9.1 to 7.8 days, but intensified care and new techniques, e.g., blood chemistry tests and X rays, raise the average bill to $169.73, almost double the 1946 average. ¶ Although the annual total of patients per bed has gone up 11% in the nine years, rapid turnover has actually...
...martini molto secco at the drop of a 500 lira note; half a dozen short order restaurants are pushing Southern fried chicken and barbecued spare ribs with the slogan: "When in Rome, do as Americans do." In Spain, Europe's last stronghold of the "matrimonial" double bed, hotelkeepers are finally switching to the twin beds preferred by U.S. tourists. In Germany, where the mattresses are divided into three parts, innkeepers are turning reluctantly to Beautyrests...
...Oldsmobile sedan, DeTar often skips lunch (to his wife's despair), sees more office callers until 7:30. After a quiet, 45-minute dinner with his wife, he climbs the stairs to his small study to catch up on his homework for the A.A.G.P. and A.M.A., gets to bed at midnight. Every Thursday afternoon he drives 18 miles to the University of Michigan Medical Center for postgraduate training, last year got credit for 100 hours' work, mostly in internal medicine...
...detailed medical history of each patient. Says he: "I know if the person ever had a reaction to penicillin. I know when John Jones had a kidney stone. It's a tremendous advantage over the doctor who sees his patient for the first time in a hospital bed...
...indiscretion with a younger man turn her marriage to Oliver Crown into a lasting winter of discontent? Can the couple's 13-year-old son Tony grow into a healthy, normal American boy after he peeps through the cottage blinds and sees his mother in the arms and bed of his 20-year-old counselor-companion Jeff? Is humorless, self-contained Oliver to blame for it all be cause he treats his Hartford, Conn, printing plant as a religion and his wife as a hobby? For the answers to these and many other related questions, tune in to Lucy...