Word: neglected
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...found that hospitals and doctors frequently slight nutritional needs. Some institutions allow surgery to be performed without first building patients up for the ordeal, then compound the error after the operation by ignoring good nutrition and relying solely on antibiotics to guard against infection. All too often, the postoperative neglect continues until the patient reaches an advanced state of malnutrition. Of 80 patients studied at the University of Alabama, 14 were hospitalized for more than three weeks without receiving vitamin supplements, although their symptoms suggested that they might have been undernourished...
...that these people are out to get Radcliffe, but sometimes it's benign neglect. I remember one meeting where some of the people didn't know what the tuition for Radcliffe students was--they thought it was thought it was different from the tuition Harvard students have to pay. I told them it was the same. It's important to have somebody there at these meetings to highlight these questions...
...then kept them on at the lower rates paid by Medicare and Medicaid. Other operators increase their profit margins by tacking extra charges onto already high bills. Mendelson reports that one Virginia nursing home listed charges of $3 per day for care of bedsores, which probably resulted from staff neglect in the first place...
Since our staff has had to neglect its course work all semester, we are again forced to publish only three times a week until the end of the school year. Any day now, we shall be released...
EUGENIA Collier's arguments were more persuasive. Her rightful concern for the film's neglect of native Sea Islands culture follows from her profession (she teaches black literature at a Baltimore college). But her professional disposition may well be the sole source of her criticism. Although she says, "the Sea Islands actually have a very rich folk culture," she reiterates her charge instead of proving her argument. According to Conroy's book, The Water is Wide (the basis for Irving Ravetch and Harriett Frank Jr.'s script) pollution from surrounding factories ruined Yamacraw Island and starved its hunters and fishermen...