Word: doctor
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...later known as the Hippocratic Corpus, was created, forming the basis of all medical practice. Since that , the accumulated and recorded knowledge of one generation has been passed on to the next through literature and via those who teach their successors. Docere, the Latin word from which the word doctor is derived, means "to teach...
Batista's income is as modest as his clinic. He receives about $80 for performing each heart procedure; a doctor in a U.S. hospital would charge about $50,000 to perform the same operation. When he gets paid to talk at a conference, he donates the fee to charity. Foreign surgeons frequently try to wine and dine him at the finest restaurants, but he is happiest chewing corn on the cob at his favorite restaurant, Kentucky Fried Chicken. Batista's chief wish is to set cardiac surgery in a direction that will benefit both the developed and the developing world...
Working in his subpar facilities in Curitiba, Batista becomes discouraged by the U.S. medical system's reluctance to help the sickest patients. "In America," he says, "if a doctor doesn't do anything and the patient dies, it's called a natural death. But if the doctor tries to do something to save that person and he dies, the doctor gets blamed for the death. That's backward thinking." The sickest patients excite Batista most because, he says, "they are the ones I can help the most...
...room, a fully mobilized team is usually ready and waiting. At a large urban medical center such as U.C. Davis, this may include a physician specializing in emergency medicine, five residents (including an anesthesiologist), three nurses, a respiratory therapist, X-ray and trauma technicians and several aides. While one doctor tries talking to the patient and checks for major injury, another starts drawing blood for tests. Other team members may be inserting catheters, stanching bleeding, administering blood or other fluids. Within five to 15 minutes, the patient may be on the way to the operating room. Says Wintemute...
...someone were drinking relatively quickly over a period of time, it would be about ten beers, on that order, perhaps," said the doctor, who declined to comment on Krueger's death...