Word: patient
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would have to pay only the first $40 of hospital charges of up to 60 days. The Government will pay for rooms in two-to four-bed quarters and for food, medicines, drugs and care by internes and nurses. After a hospital stay of at least three days, a patient may transfer to a Government-approved nursing home for free convalescent care of at least 20 days and at most 100 days...
...California hospital in San Francisco was dying of a tumor at the base of his brain. The swelling growth was pressing on the basilar artery, one of the brain's major blood suppliers, and eight of the main nerves in his skull were being compressed into uselessness. The patient's speech was garbled and slurred, he regurgitated much of the little he could eat, he had double vision, part of the right side of his body was paralyzed, and he suffered from fits of uncontrollable, inappropriate laughter...
...bell, the patient, methodical Mrs. Lundberg plunges into her multiple chores. For 15 minutes she flashes reading cards to her three first-graders, has them read a story, George and the Cherry Tree. Some of the others stray from their individual assignments to follow the story. Next comes a second-grade language class for Keith Myren, 8, and Becky Koepsell, 7, interrupted by questions from the still-reading first-graders. Then second-graders read aloud, while Mrs. Lundberg checks desk-to-desk on the work of others. An eight-minute science lesson for the fourth and fifth grades centers...
...easy enough to kill cancer cells with large doses of radiation, but in most cases it is difficult to destroy the diseased cells without killing too many of the patient's healthy cells at the same time. And in leukemia, or "blood cancer," selective radiation has long seemed impossible because the target cells are diffused throughout the body...
...promising solution to that formidable problem is being tested by medical-research teams at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island and at the University of Washington in Seattle. The doctors insert two plastic tubes in the patient's forearm, one into an artery and the other into a vein. With the patient's own heart serving as the pump, his blood is led into a loop of tubing and carried behind a lead shield. There, it is subjected to massive bombardment-with isotopic radiation by Dr. Eugene P. Cronkite at Brookhaven, or with X rays...