Word: patient
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...surprised and concerned at your shallow, poorly researched and uninformed article on U.S. medicine. You have alternately, almost schizophrenically, represented the U.S. doctor as dedicated, ingenious, overworked and harassed, while at the same time suggesting that he is grasping, incompetent and unconcerned with his patients' needs. Physicians' fees have risen, but not out of proportion with the cost of living. Their disproportionate increase in income in recent years is due in large part to a massive increase in their patient load. This is due to rising population, Medicare, Medicaid, and, most importantly, to increasing patient respect and confidence...
...This laissez-faire jungle where the only right the patient has is that of paying the wildly nonstandard fee and where the doctor can literally bury his mistakes and be free to make new ones, just as fatally irreversible as the old ones, will end only when people shed their awe of that imposing facade the A.M.A. has so skillfully built and treat the practitioners of that not so arcane science like the technician every professional...
...visualize medication of the future as being a combined effort by some well-selected doctors, the IBM corporation and some companies now working in the medical electronics field. The result would be a system whereby a patient is analyzed by a computer. The diagnosis could be verified by a doctor, and certainly the progress of the treatment would be supervised by him. Such an analysis would reveal a number of treatable malfunctions, many of which are not even tested for in a general checkup. Doctors would upgrade programs as required...
...which can be a serious test of surgical skill under the best of circumstances. Eisenhower's age and cardiac history, which made it extremely hazardous for him to undergo anesthesia, added to the operation's delicacy. Yet the obstruction had to be cleared. Specialists consulted with the patient and his wife, then they announced: "The General and Mrs. Eisenhower accepted the decision for surgery with equanimity...
...incurable and inoperable brain cancer. After he lapsed into a month-long coma and his brothers knew that he was dying, they decided to let the hospital remove as many organs as possible for transplants in the hope of prolonging life for others. Last week, when the unidentified patient died, a huge surgical complex, which had been on standby alert for a week, moved into swift and multiple action...