Word: patient
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Visit to 4-C. Gradually, the patient-and the presidency-returned to normal. The doctors removed the third and last drainage tube from his abdomen. Lady Bird took a brief out-of-town trip for the first time since the operation. Johnson conferred increasingly with officials. Dressed in a business suit with vest, he held his first ceremonial bill-signing session in the hospital. After putting his signature on a law requiring automobile manufacturers to meet new exhaust-control standards beginning with 1968 models, he delivered a little homily on the perils of air pollution and duly handed...
Seeking even more therapeutic scenery, after a day of White House work, he left for his Texas ranch at week's end to complete his recuperation. On arrival at Johnson City, Johnson promised to watch his weight and otherwise behave as the "model patient" his doctors called him. He was still chipper. But, putting a hand on his abdomen, he observed: "I hurt good...
Satisfied that both diet and drugs had already been tried, Dr. Troncelliti decided on heroic measures. He prescribed a jejuno-colostomy (short-circuiting most of the small bowel), an operation devised in 1912 for patients suffering from incurable metabolic defects. Because the body absorbs most of its fats through the wall of the lower small bowel, by drastically shortening that absorbing wall the surgeon hoped to limit his patient's assimilation of fat calories...
Brazil's chief of state is a patient man, but this was too much. In a series of meetings with his top military advisers, Castello Branco reconfirmed that most of Brazil's military is solidly be hind his government. At one point there was talk of indicting Lacerda, under the National Security Law, for under mining the stability of the government. Castello Branco used a defter maneuver: his telecommunications agency ordered Rio's broadcasting stations to deny Lacerda air time, thus stripping him of his biggest audience. That could be just the beginning. "We will never ignore...
...composed under stress"-a quality that was highly useful when he slit open the belly of the President of the United States at the Naval Medical Center in Bethesda. To assist him in the operation, Dr. Hallenbeck brought his Mayo colleague, Dr. Donald C. McIlrath, 36. Behind his distinguished patient's head, in the vital role of senior anesthesiologist, controlling the unconscious patient's breathing and monitoring his heartbeat and blood-oxygen level, he stationed Dr. Edward P. Didier, 40, assisted by the Navy's anesthesiologist, Dr. Robert J. Van Houten...