Word: painful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Today that person is often a physician. Nearly gone is the nurse-technician who dates back to the early days of ether and chloroform and whose only function was to render the patient in sensible to pain. Today's anesthesiologist is responsible for the whole man-his breathing and his circulation. In the past dozen years, the growth of knowledge and skills among anesthesia specialists has been greater than in practically any other branch of medicine. When the American Society of Anesthesiologists held its annual meeting in Denver last week, the trade talk of members made it clear that...
...second postoperative week, his doctors pronounced: "The prognosis is excellent." He still looked somewhat drawn, and Press Secretary Bill Moyers had informed newsmen earlier that it would take more time than anyone had thought for the President to recover his full strength. Nonetheless, Johnson no longer winced with pain when he walked. The day after his first stiff quarter-mile outing in the hospital grounds, he ventured outside for a 1½-mile stroll and cheerfully shook hands with passersby. He stopped to chat with Mrs. Margaret Pisapia of Silver Spring, Md., who told him: "You look wonderful...
Jason Robards understands his author's intentions perfectly. During the scene when he refuses to confess to sorcery even under the threat of torture, Robards remains so cool and detached that the audience writhes in pain. His subtle transition from arrogance to pride constitutes one of the most masterful performances you may ever see on the stage...
Within a few weeks the man's wounds were almost fully healed. Last month Dr. Suzanne Simon of Brussels University Hospital reported that, callicrein had worked equally well in 80 of the first 100 cases so treated. Even when it failed to heal the burns, it relieved pain more effectively than morphine...
...ebullient high spirits of Charles Trenet, or the blatant sex appeal of Yves Montand. But he has two qualities that none of them possess with the same intensity-fire and sorrow. He was trained by Edith Piaf, and if one closes one's eyes, one can hear her pain as well as her phrasing in his voice. Aznavour's notes are wounds into which the salt of life has been rubbed...