Word: patient
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they gathered material for this -"-week's cover story, The Plight of the U.S. Patient, TIME correspondents across the nation found that in many cases their own experiences with medicine and medical men belonged in their files. From Portland, Ore., where he came down with symptoms suggesting Hong Kong flu, Reporter David Rorvik wired a wry account of the difficulties of locating a hotel doctor. He dialed room service by mistake, and his vociferous complaints were interpreted as a slur on the hotel's cuisine. Washington Correspondent David Lee made the mistake of lighting a cigarette while...
...have training in psychiatry, psy chology, sociology, cultural anthropol ogy and economics in order to deal with lems." all Added aspects of Shapiro: the the patient's family med prob icine man will bring back "the com passion of the oldtime family doctor...
Obviously, it is the doctor who should guide the patient through the bewildering health-care maze. Yet not enough U.S. doctors today are qualified to fill this role well, and the organization of the profession discourages it. With the discoveries of new and potent "wonder drugs"?insulin, the sulfas and antibiotics, new hormones and vaccines?each succeeding decade after the 1920s should have been a golden age of medicine. But medicine needed the understanding and compassion for the patient that had marked the old-style, unscientific family doctor. The American Medical Association, long the champion of improved medical practice...
...first means that the patient must not be locked into a system in which he will have a doctor assigned to him. He must have free choice of all the physicians in his area?if he can find...
Quick-Change Artists. Why does one man get off lightly, while another is hit so hard? The explanation may lie in both the nature of the virus and the patient's previous bouts with flu. The first A2 Asian virus appeared in 1957 and laid low millions around the world. Thanks to antibody formation, these people developed substantial immunity against further illness from this virus or its kin. But flu microbes, almost unique among the 500 or more viruses that plague man, are capable of quickly altering their antigenic properties. Thus they require different antibodies to neutralize them...