Word: patient
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other Denver patients have died, after as long as five months following surgery, from a variety of complications usually involving blood clotting. In no case has it been clear that rejection of the transplanted liver was the single direct cause of death. "If a patient can make it for six or eight months," says Starzl, "he has a good chance of living a very long time." Without a liver, for which there is no artificial substitute, no one can live longer than about 36 hours...
Life-insurance salesmen are generally of as generous (they always pick up the tab when they are trying to sell something), compassionate (no one would weep more bitterly should a client die) and patient to a fault (they never take no for an answer). Yet recent events suggest that beneath those Jekyll-like exteriors lie rather tough Hydes...
...London, does not try to resolve the contradictions in Henry's character so much as to make them comprehensible, balancing them against each other and putting them in their complex historical perspectives. This sounds unexciting-and it is. Scarisbrick's study is no swashbuckler, but a sober, patient amassing of significant details. For the nonspecialist it becomes tedious at times, as when Scarisbrick expounds canon law or traces a dense web of diplomatic maneuvering; but in the end it adds up to a monumental mosaic that has all the quiet authority of first-rate scholarship...
...miniaturized computer as well as a simplified electrocardiograph. By comparing a subject's graph with fixed standards that have been programmed into the machine beforehand, it can detect abnormal electrical activity in the heart. When it -does so, warning lights flash on, and the technician knows that this patient must be referred to the cardiologist...
...machine is about the size of a bread box and weighs only 28 lbs. It can be wheeled into a factory or installed in an out-patient ward, plugged into any standard electrical socket, and can handle as many as 20 subjects an hour. To achieve this simplicity and speed, the machine records only five electrical stimuli per heartbeat, as against the standard machine's 13. These five are sufficient for basic screening. Since what is adjudged normal in an ECG varies with the subject's age, early models of the analyzer were set for use on only...