Word: patient
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...physician now at Harvard. Trey managed to get to Bombay in two days. He estimated that 90% of young Bayne's liver had been knocked out and gave him only a 10% chance of survival. Even that depended on the treatment that Trey had devised, in which the patient has a series of exchange transfusions. Much of his blood is drained out and replaced, removing the poisonous wastes from his body and giving the liver a chance to rest and regenerate...
...speak for himself in prose and free verse that echoes what Smith himself called the "belligerent vitality" of his work. Smith's writings, like his sculpture, are apt to be compact and condensed, and his syntax is sometimes bewildering. Nonetheless, his thoughts become clear enough with a little patient attention. Excerpts...
Archaeologists have learned to be satisfied if their patient scraping unearths the wherewithal for even a footnote in the slowly growing record of man's early history. But recent digs have turned up enough material to flesh out two rich chapters in that saga. At Sardis, in western Turkey, a Harvard-Cornell N.Y.U. group has uncovered what is believed to be one of King Croesus' fabled gold refineries. In the barren desert of southeastern Iran, archaeologists from Harvard's Peabody Museum have found evidence of an extinct Middle Eastern city that was conquered by Alexander the Great...
...acquaintance with those romans-fleuves of the air waves, TV's medical melodramas. Most Americans have seen it all already-the devoted old doctor who sees the symptoms of a dread disease but neglects it until TOO LATE because of the press of work; the rich and prideful patient who is cut down to size by the egalitarian properties of pain; even Kostoglotov's brief, touching hanky-panky in a corridor with a pretty nurse named Zoya...
Fluent Prattle. The Brantford doctors sent the baby to the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. There, when Michael was 41 months old, Neurosurgeon Bruce Hendrick cut out the entire right half of his brain. Hendrick by now has done 17 such operations, or hemispherectomies. The youngest patient was 26 days old and weighed five pounds...