Word: commonical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suicidal risk than nonstudents in a similar age group, and he scolded the American College of Physicians at its meeting in Boston for not doing more to prevent such deaths. Individuals contemplating suicide normally signal their intention, he said, and doctors must be alert to the message. The most common clues...
Dumping the Sick. At New Yorks Coney Island Hospital recently, a combination of delayed treatment and the common practice of "dumping" emergency patients on other hospitals contributed to the deaths of two men. The emergency-room diagnosis for one was gastrointestinal hemorrhage and shock. Claiming a lack of beds, the hospital ordered the patient transferred to a larger institution. Still waiting for transfer three hours later, the man died. An other patient died after waiting six hours to be dumped. Subsequently, New York State's Investigation Commission found that on one of the patients' entry cards, the word...
Next to putting the cat out and kissing the wife goodnight, the most common late-evening ritual for many Americans is tuning in the TV weather forecast. Just about every TV station in the nation has its own weatherman nowadays, but the trouble with a great number of them is that they are cloudy and mostly windy...
...hope of forestalling border taxes and surcharges, West Germany has pressured the Common Market to speed up its own Kennedy Round tariff cuts without corresponding acceleration by the U.S. Such action would bolster the inflation-shrunk U.S. trade surplus by hundreds of millions of dollars over the next 31 years. So far, France has blocked agreement inside the EEC, but Common Market ministers will tackle the question again this week in Brussels. Hard-pressed Britain has announced that it is willing to grant full Kennedy Round cuts by next Jan. 1 instead of holding to the original five-year timetable...
...Center. Only when physicians take time to explain problems in laymen's language, only when the patient is voluntarily involved in deciding what the proper treatment is, and only when social as well as medical assistance is provided will patients willingly follow through with medical care and reverse the common notion that the poor are unwilling to cooperate. To treat symptoms and then send a patient back into the environment that breeds these illnesses is inhumane folly...