Word: clots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only about 30% of U.S. deaths are followed by autopsies, and when postmortem findings are compared with ante-mortem diagnoses, glaring discrepancies often occur. Less than 50% of all cases of pulmonary embolism (in which a massive blood clot travels to the lungs) is correctly diagnosed before death. In 200 cases of bleeding from the gastrointestinal tract, the diagnosis was wrong 33% of the time, and 37 cases of bleeding peptic ulcer were missed. Among 85 cases of liver abscess, 53 were unsuspected until the autopsy...
...died of a blood-destroying anemia. Indeed, of 328 blood-disorder deaths in the newborn studied in California, 34.5% were associated with laboratory errors, and many could have been prevented. - A newspaperman, 26, was being treated with anticoagulants for phlebitis. A laboratory reported that his blood had a normal clotting time, so the doctor kept up the treatment. The man's blood was actually slow to clot; he died of an internal hemorrhage...
...three water-speed records, knighted by King George V. Even after Sir Malcolm died, in his bed at 64, the shadow remained. Donald sought out mediums, trying to contact his father-sometimes, he claimed, with success: "There he was, laughing uproariously as he called me 'a complete clot...
Sometimes, but seldom, a hemorrhoid heals itself through the development of a blood clot, which shuts down the vein. Surgery in moderately severe cases is minor and like a treatment for varicose veins of the leg: a chemical is injected to harden the vein's walls and make it close down. In more severe cases, part of the vein and surrounding tissues must be cut out. Operations used to be dreaded because of infections and slow healing. Now they are safer, thanks to antibiotics, and healing is quicker...
...highly entertaining science-fiction adventure, four men and a girl are reduced to the size of bacteria and injected into the bloodstream of a prominent scientist. Despite opposition from white cells, antibodies and other microscopic villains, they manage to complete their assignment: the removal of an inoperable blood clot in the scientist's brain...