Word: patient
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Doll's research showed that car benoxolone has no effect on the more common duodenal ulcers, and it has some unwanted side effects on gastric ulcer patients; about 20% suffered from water retention, and others suffered from a rise in blood pressure. Both groups needed a second drug to control these symptoms. If a gastric "ulcer" patient gets no benefit from the licorice medicine, says Dr. Doll, this may be a desirable early warning that he should have surgery...
...Frank C. Spencer of the University of Kentucky. In routine operations standardized by tradition, they say in Circulation (published by the American Heart Association), there is a "ritual of technique" so familiar that "even the occasional surgeon can dabble as an amateur with some safety for his patient." Not so in open-heart surgery...
...surgeons, who operates at least once a week and on many of the world's toughest cases, has a death rate below 5%. Twelve surgeons who were technically qualified but lacked practice had a 30% death rate with less difficult cases, and one of this group lost every patient...
...been changed." The researchers are not convinced that Hodgkin's?a baffling disease marked by periodic fevers and lassitude?can be transmitted in any such obvious fashion. But the facts are reminiscent of an earlier observation: in 1960, in a large group of Hodgkin's victims in Germany, every patient was found to have been previously infected with an ornithosis virus like that of psittacosis (parrot fever). In the Galveston case, the researchers say, "our two patients could easily have had opportunity for infection from pigeons, which were often just outside the window of their upper-story room...
...many disorders of the heart, lungs, liver and kidneys, one of the most troublesome symptoms is the ancient complaint "the dropsy"?retention of salt and water so that the patient becomes bloated with brine. If the victim already has heart trouble, the edema will make it worse. In the mildest cases, cutting out salt may be adequate treatment. For more severe cases, a variety of chemicals is available. But some patients become resistant to any one medicine, so they have to switch prescriptions, and doctors eventually run out of alternatives...