Word: patient
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Merely to tell the poor of the existence of the Center, though, was not enough. Some kind of clinic has existed in the area for forty years, but the number of patients seeking care was far below the potential limit. Like too many welfare programs, the clinic had been organized simply as a handout: "Here's the center. Now you take it or leave it." Little concern was shown for the dignity of individuals. Patients had to wait in line to see a doctor who might or might not be the same one as last time. Examinations might be carried...
...handout syndrome still characterizes welfare programs and, in particular, some of the clinics organized by city hospitals. The personalization of service was one of Dr. Salber's first steps as Director of the Center. Each patient is now given an appointment with the doctor of his choice, and to insure that they'll continue to come to the Center, patients are given new appointments before they leave. An attitude of "We care" has resulted in a tenfold growth in the number of mothers and children being seen...
...humiliating and involved inquiry into family finances may turn away many, and those that persist will often find the kind of impersonal attention that Dr. Salber did away with at the Eliot Center. Only when physicians take time to explain problems in laymen's language, only when the patient is voluntarily involved in deciding what the proper treatment is, and only when social as well as medical assistance is provided will patients willingly follow through with medical care and reverse the common notion that the poor are unwilling to cooperate. To treat symptoms and then send a patient back into...
What role was played in the death of Louis Washkansky, the world's first heart-transplant recipient, by the patient's immune mechanism and the at tempts made to suppress it? After studying microscopic sections of the transplanted heart, Dr. Barnard said they showed only minimal evidence of rejection. But on the basis of a similar set of heart-tissue samples, a distinguished transplant team at London's Hammersmith Hospital, headed by Surgeon William J. Dempster, said that it found signs of "a moderately severe rejection reaction-more than just minimal." American pathologists who saw Barnard...
...same one-shot membership fee of $7, Medic Alert will now issue bracelets or pendants stating that the wearer has declared his desire to do nate his heart, kidneys or other organs. A doctor with a dying patient wearing such a tag will phone collect to Medic Alert headquarters (the switchboard never closes) to find out what organs the patient specified for donation. The doctor can also get the name of the next of kin-from whom, under most present state laws, permission must still be sought. It will stm be up to both the doctor and Medic Alert...