Word: patient
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...young amputee went to Buffalo, where surgeons exchanged some of his cancerous tissue for tissue from patients with a similar form of osteogenic sarcoma. The hope was that, although the body does not treat its own cancerous cells as "foreign" and therefore does not destroy them by a rejection mechanism, each patient's system would regard the other's cells as foreign, and make immune cells to attack the cancer. If that happened, blood from one patient, containing the immune cells against a second patient's cancer, could be transfused into the second patient to attack...
...baby in September, looked forward jubilantly to getting an artificial leg and a steady job. Osteopath Houghton was more guarded: "We cannot say he is cured-we have to wait five or ten years before we can speak of a cure. But if the disease had progressed normally, this patient would have been dead by now." The Roswell Park doctors, determined not to kindle premature hopes in other cancer victims, said nothing...
...remedy offered by California's Monogram Industries Inc. is a self-contained toilet modeled on those used in aircraft. It can be rolled to the bed side and locked there. When its top and sides are opened, they form screens to give the patient privacy. With the help of a "grab bar," he can slide from bed to toilet without putting weight on his legs. Though the flushing unit is designed for 12-volt D.C. operation, it can also work on standard house and hospital A.C. A pushbutton activates a mechanism for pumping 81 gallons of deodorant, disinfectant flushing...
There is no danger to their practice since SOS doctors are forbid den to see the patient in daylight hours. Instead, they charge a flat $10 per call plus the cost of medicine, then write a letter to the patient's regular doctor the next morning, informing him of the treatment given. It is all working so well that a group of Rome doctors has already arrived in Paris to study the procedure...
...scoffed at the law's definition of a nudist as anyone found naked before "persons of the opposite sex, not his husband or wife, at their solicitation or with their consent, for religious or health purposes." Construed literally, ruled the court, the law would penalize even "a female patient who undergoes an examination by a male physician...