Word: generality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there is a new and far less traumatic option for some disk patients. Known as percutaneous automated diskectomy, it is an outpatient procedure performed under local anesthesia through a tiny (2 mm long) incision in the back. Developed by Radiologist Gary Onik and Neurosurgeon Joseph Maroon of Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh, the operation breezed through its clinical trials, and has been performed on some 15,000 patients around the country -- at approximately one-third the cost of conventional surgery...
...procedure usually takes less than an hour and requires no stitches. Patients walk out of the hospital with only a Band-Aid over the incision. Recalls Sheila Aronoff, who had the surgery at Allegheny General last year: "I could feel the pain start to leave while I was in the recovery room. Except for those whose jobs require physical labor, the vast majority of patients are back at work in a week or two. Discomfort is rare: most patients need only a non-narcotic analgesic, if anything. Says Onik: "The biggest problem is keeping them from doing too much...
...government of General Wojciech Jaruzelski played on such popular fears by giving unprecedented television coverage to the strikes. Alluding to the demand for the legalization of Solidarity, Government Spokesman Jerzy Urban ruled out "gunpoint negotiations with strikers on political issues." A curfew was called in the heart of the mining-strike region near Katowice, and others were authorized for the port cities of Szczecin and Gdansk. After declaring the strikes illegal, authorities accelerated trials, and jail sentences of up to three months were imposed on charged strikers...
Jaruzelski seemed to signal a shift in mood late last week at a special meeting of the Communist Party Central Committee, when he called for a "brave new turn" and the "courage to break stereotypes" in dealing with worker grievances. Jaruzelski's remarks followed a television address by General Czeslaw Kiszczak, the Interior Minister, who offered to open talks with representatives of "different social groups" to end the unrest. While there was speculation that the Kiszczak statement hinted at possible talks with Solidarity for the first time since 1981, the offer was greeted with skepticism by Poles, who have heard...
...favor of those who have been singled out by the tests. Forty-two states and the District of Columbia have antidiscrimination laws against the handicapped; some state courts and executive actions have extended the protections of these statutes to people branded by their blood-test results. Delaware's attorney general recently forced the Nemours Foundation to drop its policy of transferring out seropositive patients from its Wilmington hospital. Municipalities have also been using their antidiscrimination ordinances. In New York City last March, an administrative judge awarded $26,647 to a man who was refused treatment by his longtime dental clinic...