Word: patient
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Barely 30 minutes off the operating table, the nation's least patient patient signaled for a pen and scrawled a message to his doctors on the back of a medical form: "Tell me something." The surgeons obediently described the operations to remove a polyp from his throat and repair an abdominal hernia, but their fill-in was far too sketchy for Lyndon Johnson. "Tell me all that took place," he commanded in a second note. Thus began what will doubtless rate as the most exposed convalescence in presidential history...
What the doctors did for Lyndon Baines Johnson in Bethesda Naval Hospital last week was essentially what they would have done for any patient who happened to have the same complaints. But because Johnson is President of the U.S., there was a sort of fail-safe setup -twice the average number of physicians and surgeons...
...President's chest, so that a continuous electrocardiogram could be taken and shown on a TV-type screen. Dr. Didier worked a thin plastic tube through the President's throat and down his windpipe to deliver the anesthetic. Anesthetics must be chosen with special care for a patient with Johnson's heart-attack history; nitrous oxide offered the advantage of inducing only light anesthesia, so that the patient wakes up with a minimum of hangover. Dr. Didier had to use an especially thin tube to leave room for what else had to go down the presidential throat...
...with total sociology -Five Families, The Children of Sánchez-Lewis lets his subjects tell their story into a tape recorder. In Sanchez, this approach produced something very much like poetry, as a fiercely proud, slum-dwelling Mexican family exposed their seams and their hearts to Lewis' patient, uncritical machine. In La Vida, the effect is suffocating and ugly...
Moore, 53, a senior research fellow at Harvard's Russian Research Center and onetime analyst for the OSS, reached his conclusion after patient years of studying the structures-democracy, Communism, fascism-that mankind has erected, ostensibly to replace the tyranny of brute force. His first books focused on Soviet Communism as the newest and in some ways the most promising experiment in government. But he was soon disillusioned: Communism, he decided and said,* was all promise and no performance. In this book, which embraces all forms of government, he grants no better marks to democracy...