Word: patient
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...armed forces, whose duty it is to protect the nation's liberties, cannot stand aside and watch our patient and generous people suffer a state of anarchy. This revolution will strive to heal the divisions of our people as well as restore our deserved grandeur in the eyes of the world...
...choice of billing procedures was extended to doctors in order to permit them to continue the common practice of charging wealthier patients more than others, to help offset the costs of charity work. What the Federal Government hoped was that doctors would bill directly only those patients they expected to pay higher-than-average fees, thus eliminating the possibility that an "unreasonable" excess might be tacked onto the bill of a patient who could not afford it. But when the question came to a vote in the house of delegates, the moderates were overridden and all A.M.A. doctors were urged...
Choice of Bills. Under the new law that makes 19.1 million elderly Americans eligible for partial Government payment of their medical expenses, doctors have been given a choice between two methods of collecting their bills: 1) they can submit an itemized statement directly to the patient, who must pay it before he can enter a claim for Medicare reimbursement, or 2) they can submit their bills to the Medicare-insurance carrier, thereby relieving the patient of the need to pay out any large sums beyond the first $50-which he must pay in any event. Either way, Medicare pays only...
...American dentist were to say to his patient, "I'm going to break your jaw," he might confidently expect to lose the patient. Yet, last week 500 of the most eminent U.S. oral surgeons* sat on the edges of their chairs at Washington's Walter Reed Army Medical Center, as a respected Swiss practitioner described his radical, jaw-splitting procedures for correcting severe malformations. When Zurich's Dr. Hugo Obwegeser had finished a presentation that took most of three days, Cornell Uni versity's Dr. Stanley Behrman stated flatly: "American oral surgeons have never been...
Before they can effectively combat the bacteria that may infect a patient, threaten a swiftly spreading epidemic, or contaminate a municipal water sup ply, doctors and scientists need quick and positive identification of the invading organisms. But traditional laboratory tests that single out and classify bacterial troublemakers are complex, time-consuming and sometimes inconclusive. Often, before the results are in, the disease has spread or the patient has died. In the future, though, bacteria may lose their cloak of anonymity more quickly. Scientists have discovered that each species and strain has a distinctive "fingerprint" that can be used for virtu...