Word: patient
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...third year will be devoted mainly to the Major Clinical Experience. This will be taught on the wards and in the clinics of the hospitals. It will be taught with emphasis on the whole patient rather than the approach of the specialist. Seminars presented by the Biological Sciences. The Behavioral and Social Sciences will provide instruction throughout the year, hopefully at the hospitals...
There are, to be sure, some compensating factors. The modern drugs and vaccines familiar in the U.S. are also used by the Soviets, and no available statistics suggest that their death rate is unusually high. Though their hospitals may be hampered by a lack of technology, patient care does not suffer as much as it might. There is none of the doctor-nurse shortage that now plagues the U.S. Nonetheless, Dr. Hall had reason to be distressed, for what he had been shown was billed as the best that Soviet medicine had to offer...
...tale of the red-haired teen-ager," says a Journal editorial. "The public could indulge their curiosity about medical 'miracles.' " Unfortunately, the Journal continues, doctors also reacted with too much enthusiasm. Over-zealous surgeons "tried to reunite every limb, or part of it, regardless of the patient's condition or the merits of the occasion...
...remarkable surgery on Ev Knowles-who now uses his right hand and arm as if he were naturally left-handed-there have been dozens of similar operations performed. In at least half the cases the surgery failed. Most should never have been tried, argues the A.M.A. "If the patient has one good leg, the other should not be replanted. The chances of neurologic recovery are poor, the handicap of a shortened extremity severe, and the value of a prosthesis great enough that the patient is served best with a good stump and an artificial limb. An entire arm should...
...ideal patient for replantation, concludes the Journal, is someone under 30 who has suffered no other major injury at the same time, whose severed limb is in good shape, and who is in a hospital where medical facilities are equal to the intricate job. In all other cases, doctors will be serving their patients best by prescribing artificial limbs...