Word: patient
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there was only one chance in a hundred of the joint commission actually coming up with a constitutional formula. But the immediate threat of U.D.I, and all its ugly ramifications had-for the moment-been averted. It remained to be seen if Rhodesia's blacks would be as patient as Wilson was willing to be. As he boarded his R.A.F. Comet in the bright sunlight of Salisbury Airport Saturday morning, Wilson left behind a frozen silence. But frost, in the Rhodesian context, is better than fire...
...million operations performed in the U.S. each year, from charity patient to President, one feature is uniform and unchanging. The last in dividual the patient sees and hears be fore he "goes under" is the person who gives the anesthetic...
Today that person is often a physician. Nearly gone is the nurse-technician who dates back to the early days of ether and chloroform and whose only function was to render the patient in sensible to pain. Today's anesthesiologist is responsible for the whole man-his breathing and his circulation. In the past dozen years, the growth of knowledge and skills among anesthesia specialists has been greater than in practically any other branch of medicine. When the American Society of Anesthesiologists held its annual meeting in Denver last week, the trade talk of members made it clear that...
...patient lost 96 lbs. in little more than a year, and his leg ulcer healed. Then he developed a hernia at the operation scar, so the surgeons went in again. Since his weight loss had been only moderate, they cut out a foot of jejunum. That did it. The clerical worker is now down to a merely rotund 165 lbs.; he is back at his office desk, able to tie his shoelaces, and happy as never before...
...Panacea. After such surgery, now standardized with a 30-inch loop of jejunum, most patients suffer from some diarrhea, and at best must expect to have three or four bowel movements daily. This is not a high price to pay for the dramatic benefits, Dr. Troncelliti suggested in his report to the annual congress of the American College of Surgeons last week. At the same time, he emphasized that he is not recommending this "super-surgery as a panacea for the super-obese." To qualify as a candidate for jejuno-colostomy, a patient must be at least 100 lbs. overweight...