Word: patient
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bryce in scholarship, Heren offers considerable journalistic value: he provokes Americans into looking outside the framework of favorite myths. But if Americans are not the impulsive, brash upstarts that they themselves and a good deal of the world have taken them to be, just who are they? A notably patient people, Heren believes, infinitely capable of compromise, whose society is less the product of revolutionary fiat than of constant evolutionary adjustments over the years...
...Dylan of John Wesley Harding appears touched with grace. The snarling pieties of Highway 61 Revislited, the lucid and patient degeneration in Blonde on Blonde, seem to have been blotted from his memory. Instead, Dylan reaches further into his past for a starting point--and only a starting-point. The new album is a unique and advanced product...
There will be several cases where the new law won't apply. If the laminated card is lost, if the patient develops cancer or becomes too old, the doctor can't operate...
...patient out of bed and walking," has become an increasingly familiar refrain of surgeons after virtually every kind of operation. But there seemed to be one obvious exception: if the patient has a broken leg - or, worse, two broken legs - should he not stay in a cast and flat on his back for weeks? No, concluded Orthopedic Surgeon Ernst Dehne of the Veterans Administration Hospital in Memphis; let him start walking as soon as the cast...
...Fitzsimons doctors paid little attention to skin and muscle wounds, covering them with only a light dressing and proceeding immediately to the job of setting the leg and putting on the cast. Within 24 hours, they had the patient on crutches and encouraged him to put as much weight on the broken leg as he could tolerate. This proved to be highly variable. "But," said Colonel Brown, "we did not push if there was pain." One thing that spurred the servicemen on was that they had to be either up and in motion, or lying down with the leg elevated...