Word: patient
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...hospitals had been approved as of last week. Another 3,000 may be approved this month, but the extra strain put on those that do qualify is bound to be enormous. The Government has no way to even out the increased patient load, for Medicare registrants are free to choose their own doctor or hospital. Even if there were enough beds available, the nurse shortage is rapidly worsening; the nation has vacancies for 75,000 registered nurses and 25,000 practical nurses. Insofar as Medicare-backed nursing-home treatment is concerned, less than one-third...
...EXTRA INDIGENTS. And then there is Title 19, a little-publicized section contained in the Medicare act. It, too, will add to the U.S.'s new-patient load, for it extends existent federal programs-offering free health care to children under 21 of impoverished families and to adults between 21 and 65 who are blind or "disabled." Title 19 requires individual states to assume part of the cost, but seven states and Puerto Rico have already passed the necessary legislation...
...timing was all wrong." During his first angry visit to the draft board, Gary was told to come back with another letter from Cal State testifying to his student status. He did. His induction was postponed, but only until Feb. 1. Grimly, Gary Wilson began a patient-and unrewarding-series of visits to the draft board office. "I'd go down there, wait three hours to see someone," he said, "and I'd get nowhere. I was getting the brushoff...
Even the most universally useful anti-TB drug, isoniazid, is harmless only if the patient's enzyme system can break it down readily: if not, he is likely to develop a generalized neuritis, or even an acute form of rheumatism...
Making matters even more complicated, some drugs increase the potency of enzyme activity. This leads to the bizarre situation in which a heart patient needs more of the anticlotting coumarin drugs if he is also taking barbiturates to allay his anxiety. The "barbies" hasten the breakdown of coumarin, and they have the same effect on some antiepilepsy and antifungal drugs...