Word: bloodedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...peoples of Sinkiang with their cousins in Soviet Central Asia. "An exchange of blows," as the author puts it, "may start at any moment." When that happens, hundreds of thousands of "volunteers" on the Soviet side of the Chinese frontier will "come to the aid of [their] brothers in blood and in faith," and the Soviet authorities will be unable to stop them. As the fighting spreads, the Chinese may attack Russia itself. The Soviets consider escalating to nuclear weapons. "It is difficult," the author warns, "to overestimate the scale of the retaliation...
...times a year for what they call "economic rounds," studying patients' bills to make sure they are not padded. At one such meeting a few weeks ago, a slide of a bill was projected on a screen. A tumor specialist quickly asked why the hospital had ordered two computerized blood tests when one?the cheaper one, at that?would have sufficed. In a very different cost-cutting program, New York University Medical Center has designated 104 rooms in a new building for a "cooperative care" experiment in which patients who are well on their way to recovery but cannot...
...nearby cardiologist, who then refers the patient to a tertiary center like Duke. He's evaluated by a clinical cardiologist, then goes to a group of diagnostic laboratory cardiologists and radiologists. If the patient is to be operated on, the surgeons, the anesthesiologist, the pump team, the blood bank in the institution that feeds the pump are involved. The patient goes to a special recovery room with specially trained people to watch him. He's there five days with round-the-clock care. He goes to a rehabilitation unit for the rest of his recovery...
...hailed as the greatest advance in radiology since the discovery of X rays, appeared on the medical scene. Combining X-ray equipment with a computer and a television cathode-ray tube, this revolutionary diagnostic device can visualize cross sections of the human body to detect, among other disorders, tumors, blood vessel damage and bile duct obstructions. But whereas an X-ray machine cost $50 in 1896, today's CAT scanner may run to $700,000 or more...
...many hospital maternity units during labor and delivery. A sonar-like ultrasound system keeps track of the baby's heart rate, and an electrically wired belt across the mother's abdomen notes uterine contractions. Electrodes are attached to the baby's head to get an electrocardiogram. Blood samples for analysis may be drawn from the baby's scalp. The object: to detect fetal problems early enough for physicians to intervene. The U.S. spends some $80 million a year on this effort, and the fetal death rate in the U.S. has in fact declined since electronic monitoring...