Word: patient
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Peter Kiger, 29, who served at the Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Mo., kept demanding that guards turn on the steam heat in the room of an elderly Negro patient in the psychotic ward. He claims that they not only refused, but retaliated by forcing him to spend a few days-naked -in a chilly cubicle with a stone floor, known as "the hole." When New Yorker Sullivan was ordered to increase his work output one day, he turned to his foreman and said: "I quit." He spent two weeks in solitary...
...transplant experts tackled the rejection problem, they quickly agreed that all early drugs designed to suppress the body's immune reaction to foreign protein were bad. Since they blocked off the production of disease-fighting antibodies indiscriminately, said London's Sir Peter Medawar, they left the transplant patient easy prey to infectious crises caused by the commonest microbes that healthy people carry around all the time...
Since the pancreas manufactures insulin essential for the utilization of sugar and other carbohydrates, the patients most likely to need a transplanted pancreas are victims of the severe juvenile form of diabetes. The pancreas, said Minneapolis' Dr. Richard C. Lillehei, is so inaccessible that it is the only major organ that is harder to get out of the donor than to put into the recipient. He has made three grafts of an entire pancreas, with the patient surviving 41 months in the most successful case. Be cause all three died of infection rather than rejection of the graft, Lillehei...
...most noted transplant teams have now turned to antilymphocyte serum or globulin (TIME July 26). It is made by injecting human white blood cells into animals (usually horses), which make antibody against them. When this antibody, extracted from the animal's serum, is injected into a transplant patient, it interferes with the ability of his own white cells to make antibody against his graft...
Died. The Rt. Rev. Arthur Lichtenberger, 68, Presiding Bishop from 1959 to 1965 of the 3.5 million-member Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S. and one of its leading advocates of social reform. Though patient as Job on some matters, Lichtenberger was no middle-of-the-roader on others, urged his flock to join civil rights protest movements and pointedly reminded them that "each of us is involved in the struggle for racial justice by our prayers, our citizenship and our giving...