Word: patient
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bony box like a bomb shelter in the middle of the skull, is a highly delicate, dangerous procedure, and surgeons have tried several approaches. Dr. Robert W. Rand and his team at U.C.L.A. go in through the nasal passages and the sphenoid bone that lies behind them. First, the patient's head is clamped in a stereotactic device that enables the surgeons to take bearings in three dimensions. Then the surgeons saw through the intervening bone and insert the ultracold cannula. Dr. Rand found that temperatures as low as -70° C. maintained for as long as 17 minutes...
...year-old man. After only a mouthwash sort of anesthesia, Dr. Cahan froze the surface of the cancer. Later he inserted the liquid nitrogen probe deep into the tissue. In each of three required operations, the tissues were frozen and allowed to thaw. The patient complained of only a mild burning sensation that lasted a few hours after each treatment. In three weeks, the cancer shrank to the size of a small...
...technique. They give light anesthesia and introduce the cold cannula through the urethra. To make sure of the placement, the surgeon's finger can check the position of a button on the side of the probe as it nears the prostate. The cold is then turned on. The patient needs a catheter (a plastic tube) through the urethra for a few days to permit urination, but has far less discomfort than with older procedures and is in much less danger of infection. So far, the Buffalo doctors have used this method in 50 cases, 17 of them with cancer...
...with a mallet as if hacked from timelessness by human persistence. The pose may be stiff, but the archaic smile on the ancient Egyptian's lips reflects an implicit belief that he has found a house for his soul and that his eyes gaze toward eternity. Yet without patient scholarship, he would only have added to the historic rubble of mankind...
About 5 p.m. one day last week, Dorothy Butts, 50, pulled a .22-cal. pistol from her purse and with two shots killed Mary Happer, 61, a patient at the High Oaks Home for Christian Scientists in Philadelphia. As a nurse rushed into the room, Miss Butts fled and drove away in her car. Six hours later, the car was found parked outside the police station in Bethesda, Md., a Washington suburb. Miss Butts was crumpled over the wheel, dead of a bullet through her head. Beside her body was a note: "Today I killed my best friend, Mary Happer...