Word: patient
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...phagocytes counted, his pneumogastric system checked and the eliminatory functions examined in a public post-mortem," raged Columnist Cassandra in the Daily Mirror. The medical journal Lancet noted icily that "the public's trust in the medical profession derives largely from its conviction that what transpires between patient and doctor will not be bandied about," and the British Medical Association rushed out a warning to all doctors not to publish anything about their dead patients without the family's consent. Asked Daily Mail Columnist Bernard Levin: "Who was it that said biography had added a new terror...
Churchill could be a difficult patient. He was something of a hypochondriac, Moran says, "and he takes instinctively to a quack." Once, when Sir Winston was planning to join General Alexander's army in southern Italy, Moran demanded that he take along a bottle of mepacrine, an antimalarial drug. Churchill resisted, telephoned Buckingham Palace to see if King George had ever taken the stuff (he hadn't). Wrote Moran: "Winston is just incorrigible. He has only to press a bell to bring into the room the greatest malarial experts in the world; instead, he asks the King...
...pump did what we thought it would do," said Surgeon Michael E. DeBakey. "The patient's heart was already showing improvement. With this important encouragement, we look forward to using the device again in the near future...
...much of the strain under which it had labored. While it would not literally rest, it would have a chance to regain muscle tone and strength. That might take as long as three weeks. If everything worked out as hoped, Dr. DeBakey planned to detach the pump from his patient's chest but leave the ¾-in plastic tubes implanted. They might come in handy later. At week's end DeRudder's condition had the doctors baffled. The pump was working extremely well, but he remained in a coma. If he had suffered brain damage, the cause...
...opens in a hospital ward, where the gauze bandages turbaning every head suggest that the patients all have something wrong up there. In the case of Patient Edwin Spindrift, a Ph.D. and lecturer on linguistics, this seems to be indisputably so. His libido is dead. Ink smells like peppermint to him, hot fat like violets. At the least provocation, Spindrift takes off on obsessive journeys to the roots of words. "What's the difference between 'gay' and 'melancholy'?" asks the doctor. "One is monosyllabic, the other tetrasyllable," Spindrift begins. "One is of French, the other...