Word: patient
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clock read 6:15 a.m. when the patient was wheeled into the operating suite. A team of ten masked, green-gowned doctors made final preparations. By 6:50 a.m., the patient was asleep under general anesthesia. Ten minutes later, the chief surgeon murmured "scalpel?" and the operation was under way. There was a swift, sure incision, then a slow, deliberate excision. By 9:15 a.m., the last suture was in place, the operation complete. "It's wonderful," breathed one of the doctors, "just wonderful...
...routine familiar to anyone who has ever watched a hospital drama on TV. This time the action was nerve-rackingly real, the patient the President of the U.S. Despite all the advance assurances that there was little danger to Lyndon Johnson's life, a tremor of apprehension rippled around the world from the Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. And in fact for four hours and ten minutes, from the moment when the President was anesthetized until he fully wakened at 11 a.m., the awesome powers and responsibilities of his office devolved upon Vice President Hubert Humphrey...
...undertaken a role of world leadership unprecedented in human history. State's performance must be measured against that role in all its immensity and complexity, at a time when the dramatic diplomatic breakthrough is a thing of history, when success is forged from months and years of patient effort, when egregious failure could bring down the sky. It must be examined in the context of a nation that is history's most powerful, yet is still reluctant to use its power. So, too, must State's performance be considered in the light of its assigned functions, which...
...comparison group received just as many injections of material that not only looked the same but raised an identical red wheal. The two different types of shots were labeled only with coded numbers; the doctors did not know which patient was getting which...
...received worldwide publicity in 1957 when it was belatedly discovered that he was of superior intelligence and a gifted performer on eight musical instruments, but was by then so disoriented that he was considered incapable of ever adjusting to a normal life, spent the remaining years as a patient with special privileges, teaching music and working in the print shop; of a stroke; in Glenwood, Iowa...