Word: patient
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Because doctors were anxious to preserve absolute calm around their patient, Ike's railroad arrival was accomplished under maximum security. Troops with fixed bayonets were stationed at 20-yard intervals along the length of the train to keep spectators away as he was carried to an ambulance. Outside the station a helicopter, heavily insulated against the roar of its rotors, picked up the former President and in eleven minutes deposited him at the hospital twelve miles away. When he got to Walter Reed, Ike said he was "feeling fine," later in the week had a Thanksgiving dinner with...
Double Loss. Facilities to test for primary aldosteronism exist in only a few medical centers. But if Dr. Conn is even half right, a puzzling feature of much diabetes (TIME, June 25) may be explained-why so many patients have a normal or even a high insulin level but fail to metabolize sugars properly. And some diabetes patients will certainly be referred to blood-pressure specialists, who in turn will consult endocrinologists. If the diagnosis of an adrenal tumor is confirmed, a surgeon will then have the difficult job of finding and removing a nodule only about one-sixth...
Nonterminal Case. There would be no problem at all if more of the homes were like Issaquah Villa. For John Whitaker is one of a growing number of doctors who realize that nursing homes have become a necessary and important extension of overcrowded hospitals. In the better homes, a patient can get what care he needs during a simple convalescence or rehabilitation without paying the astronomical costs of an extended stay in a hospital. The average cost of similar care in a hospital is $30 a day; it can be obtained in a nursing home for half, or sometimes...
...Whitaker, a busy general practitioner, was so concerned for his aging patients who had no place else to go, that he decided to start Issaquah Villa in his "spare time"-that is, when he was not attending to the daily 50-patient load of his regular practice and helping to raise his eleven children and his black Angus cattle. Even with all those demands on his energy, he has been able to operate profitably a home that ranks with the best in the U.S. What's more, the unusual presence of a doctor as medical director, rather than...
...bumper to bumper, and the traffic is stalled. I want to get home, Lord, but the traffic won't move. Really, it's too much. Don't ask me to be patient. Okay. I'll try some more to be human, but it's nearly been knocked out of me for one day. Stay with me; I can't do it alone. Jesus, thanks for sweating it out with me out here on this highway...