Word: delay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...patients at fault for this fatal delay? Last week two experts admitted that in far too many cases, late diagnosis of cancer is not the patient's but the doctor's fault...
Thanks to anti-cancer propaganda, the public is becoming aware of the importance of prompt examination (the proportion of cancer patients who now delay going to a doctor-32%-is much smaller than surveys showed nine years ago). But doctors seem to be even less alert. The Memorial Hospital experts conclude: "The patient is seeking help earlier but the physician does not appear to be taking advantage of the opportunity...
...citizen, had learned the impossibility of dealing with Communists. He became one of the most determined and able opponents of Soviet meddling and delay in Japan. MacArthur appointed him chairman of the Allied Council for Japan and recommended him for the rank of Ambassador. George Atcheson's major job on the day his plane crashed: pushing through a Japanese peace treaty despite Russian obstructionism...
Then, said Hughes, he telephoned Juan Trippe and the Pan Am chief had flown to California. "I asked him what he would do about Senator Brewster. He said he would ask him to hold up the investigation and also try to delay hearings on the community air bill with the hope that we might get together on both matters...
...decay. The delegates heard that some 26 U.S. communities are now carrying on long-range experiments with fluorinated water, and that results so far are promising. Some impatient delegates, believing that there has been experimenting enough, proposed that all the nation's drinking water be fluorinated without further delay. But the U.S. Public Health Service cautioned that investigators were not yet sure that the fluorine doses under study were safe...