Word: patient
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...concrete-walled basement room 20 ft. square. A 1½-ton, lead-shielded door closed behind him as orderlies helped him onto a table. From the ceiling, doctors and orderlies pulled down the snout of a huge, telescope-like General Electric X-ray machine and pointed it at the patient's lower abdomen...
...raging fever, and threatened with death from brain damage. Rushed to Bellevue Hospital, he was stretched out beside the artificial kidney, which was primed with two pints of blood containing heparin to prevent clotting. Attending doctors from Cornell University put a cannula into the radial artery in the patient's wrist, connected this by polyethylene tubes with the core of the artificial kidney. Key part of this core: cellophane tubing of ordinary sausage-casing size. From the core, other tubes led back to veins in the patient's elbow...
Elaborate Technique. At Massachusetts General, Neurosurgeon Vernon H. Mark worked with Psychiatrists Ervin and Thomas P. Hackett to make the operation more precise and predictable. First came refinements of the stereotactic apparatus which plots a point inside the patient's skull in three dimensions. Then an elaborate technique was developed. In stage one, the surgeon drills a small, carefully plotted hole in each side of the skull to permit injection of dye for making detailed brain X rays. After two or three days comes stage two: another hole is drilled higher up in the skull, and the surgeons insert...
Charles W. Slack, assistant professor of Clinical Psychology and director of the group, said that it will not use the "traditional doctor-patient relationship, which has been rather unsuccessful in the past, but rather an employer-employee relationship in which the volunteer as employer pays the delinquent as an experimental subject for his attendance...
...Washington School of Psychiatry, regularly attends clinical sessions at the hospital. She has trained most of the nation's dance therapists, is also a leader in the related field of drama therapy. Full of honors and awards, Marian Chace still feels a surge of triumph when a patient manages to dance his way-however briefly-out of his world of isolation. Says she: "They offer to carry the record player, or choose a record, or get together to plan a production. These are the great pleasures...