Word: patient
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Patient's Decision. The radical operation to remove half a brain (hemispherectomy) dates from 1928, and it has proved useful mainly for treating young children with one-sided brain disease. Ernest Coe* is only the third right-handed adult known to have had a left hemispherectomy, and the first two did not survive long enough to recover full speech or control of their right hands...
There is no plan to rendezvous Gemini 11 with either Agena 8 or 10. However, the first three-man Apollo flight, now scheduled for mid-November, probably will seek out one of the two patient Agenas. Soon-the moon...
...operation. Now, Dr. Smith believes, Coe's faculties are improving as the right hemisphere tries to take over, just as one lung or one kidney compensates for the loss of the other. What Dr. Smith finds most encouraging is that this process has gone so far in a patient so many years beyond childhood. While VA doctors concede that Coe's considerable recovery may be a fluke, they believe that hemispherectomy deserves further investigation; because, for patients with spreading brain cancers, it is the only alternative to death...
...mechanical deficiencies before takeoff. In others, doctors took off with their planes overloaded, or from an airport where the runway lights were not working. Almost all of the physicians were setting off on pleasure trips, so they did not have the excuse of "Got to get through for the patient's sake." The trouble, suggests an FAA official, is that too many doctors fly with "the feeling that they are omnipotent...
...responsibility middle-ager might say with Shakespeare's Henry V at dawn of the Battle of Agincourt: "The day, my friends, and all things wait for me." Whether the hand holds the scalpel (Dr. Michael DeBakey, 57) or the baton (Leonard Bernstein, 48), it is watched by patient and public with rapt attention. Whether he is a Protestant evangelist (Billy Graham, 47) or a Catholic Archbishop (John Patrick Cody, 58, of Chicago, a U.S. cardinal-to-be), he lends spiritual guidance to attending multitudes. Whether he is a master of industry (Arjay Miller, 50, president of Ford...