Word: patient
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...very idea is a product of the most modern medicine, which has made possible the detection and treatment of countless diseases before they display so much as a single symptom. The major problem is to get the symptomless patient to let doctors run the neces sary tests...
...Kaiser multiphasic checkup con sists of 20 computer-oriented tests given by a team of technicians, nurses and machines. The patient arrives with a medical-history questionnaire already filled out. He picks up a clipboard full of IBM cards, strips to the waist, dons a paper hospital gown and takes off on his rounds. Pulse rate, blood pressure, lung capacity, breath rate and strength, reflexes, urine, eyesight and hearing, all get a quick but thorough going-over...
Speed in no way compromises thor oughness. Dr. Morris Collen, coordina tor of the program, reports that fully half of the 40,000 patients seen annually have "clinically significant abnormali ties, conditions which the physicians will want to treat." Kaiser's cost is approx imately $25 per patient, and the health-plan members pay virtually nothing...
...operation to the other, "stirring up dust and substantially increasing the dangers of infection." In a delicate nose restoration, a crude, oversized needle "fit only for abdominal surgery" was used. An effort to rebuild a face involved an old-fashioned technique that required transplanting flesh tunneled from the patient's arm. "In the U.S.," said Dr. Hall, "the surgeon would have used free grafts and implant materials...
That was in 1908. Gatti-Casazza stayed on for 27 years, waiting patiently-but his singers never got out of the powder room. Not that the management wasn't serious about that new house. Indeed, the Be-Patient-New-Met's-A-Comin' recitative echoed through the old house more regularly than the Anvil Chorus. At one time or another, sites for a new Met were planned on 49th Street, 57th Street, 59th Street, 63rd Street, 110th Street, Washington Square, on the ground floor of the Seagram Building and underneath the Queensboro Bridge...