Word: patient
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...commission's prescription: a new medical specialty composed of "primary physicians"-so called because they would have first and continuing contact with the patient. Their training, said Dr. Millis, who is a physicist, not a physician, would involve abolition of the present system that calls for medical graduates to serve an internship of a year or more before going into practice. Future primary physicians, like candidates for all other medical specialties, would have to go into a three-year residency program immediately after graduation...
Sound & Fury. Using 700-ton magnets, Harvard's cyclotron fires a proton beam with the force of 160 million electron volts. But after leaving the cyclotron, the protons travel a precise and predictable distance before they release their power. Careful positioning of the patient allows the beam to pierce the skin with little damage before releasing all its energy and destroying a specific target deep inside the body-such as the pituitary gland, perhaps, or a brain tumor...
...enough for the disease-causing microbes to be detectable. The careful placing and size of an electrical charge is the key to Peri-Start, a machine built on the principle of the cardiac pacemaker. It electronically stimulates the muscles of bladder and colon and controls elimination in a paralyzed patient. In the future, the same technique may well prove practical for other muscles...
...Francisco, at the annual meeting of the American Roentgen Ray Society, a novel, three-dimensional fluoroscopy machine was displayed by General Electric. A complex welter of mirrors, polarizing filters, lenses, an image intensifier and a two-cathode X-ray tube (see diagram), G.E.'s Stereo Fluoricon shows a patient to his physician as a green 3-D image, "like a skeleton with its organs hung inside." Other X-ray machines and sonar beams have produced similar 3-D effects, but previous processes were too cumbersome or time-consuming to be easily utilized. G.E.'s machine...
...with Amateur Composer Van de Kamp at the pi ano, playing one of his own works; then he gets up, kisses his wife goodbye, throws on a scarf, and heads out for a hard night's day at the observatory, where the camera briskly retraces the hours of patient study that led Van de Kamp to his revolutionary discovery...