Word: lungren
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixon. Pat Nixon spends much of her time working in her vegetable gardens, and both Nixons enjoy frequent stays by their married daughters, Julie and Tricia. Other recent visitors have included former Nixon Lieutenants John Mitchell and H.R. Haldeman, Herb Klein, Nixon's former communications director, Physician John Lungren, former Assistant HEW Secretary Patricia Reilley Hitt and his millionaire pals Robert Abplanalp and Bebe Rebozo...
...worried Lungren called in Dr. Wiley F. Barker, an expert in venous-systems diseases and professor of surgery at U.C.L.A., and Dr. Eldon B. Hickman, deputy chief of surgery at Memorial. After consultation and another venogram of their patient, the medicalmen agreed that immediate surgery was essential to keep the clots from breaking off and moving upward to Nixon's heart and lungs. They showed Nixon the venogram, explaining that, as Hickman put it to reporters later, "it was a threat that the clot could become a pulmonary embolus." After discussing his condition with Pat Nixon and, by telephone...
...Nixon, according to Ziegler: the ailing former President has no medical insurance. As Chief Executive, Nixon chose not to enroll in the Government's health-insurance plan, which could have been transferred to a private insurer when he left office. He could have used a military hospital, but Lungren apparently insisted on admitting his patient to Long Beach Memorial, probably because it contains the elaborate technical equipment that Nixon's case might require. The rate for Nixon's room was $90 a day until Oct. 1, then went to $94; the intensive care he is now receiving...
Surgery, Dr. John C. Lungren explained, creates "raw surfaces" along the the incision lines-points where postoperative bleeding can occur. They can contribute to what Lungren called a "generalized ooze" that does not gush blood and often cannot be detected until changes in pulse and blood pressure signal trouble...
...output and a change in tone in the small blood vessels. To restore the heart's normal output and raise the blood pressure, Nixon was given three pints of packed red blood cells. "If proper measures had not been available and instituted, he may have died," Lungren said later. Nixon had received a total of six pints of blood by week's end, and, though he was out of shock within three hours, the apparent continued loss of blood kept him in danger...