Word: patient
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...involving an aggregation of platelets, the smallest solid elements in the blood. It may be possible, he suggested, to use anti-inflammatory drugs to control or prevent some kinds of thrombus formation. But by the same token, it may be unwise to give such drugs-even aspirin-to a patient taking anticoagulants, since they may depress the coagulability too far, and lead to dangerous bleeding...
...many varieties of penicillin have a unique disadvantage: about one in a hundred patients who get them by injection becomes sensitized, so that his next shot may produce a severe reaction marked by rash, fever, swollen glands and pain in the joints. In a few cases, the response is so fast and catastrophic that it is called anaphylactic shock, a violent reaction usually associated with the introduction of foreign protein into the system. A patient thus afflicted may die within minutes...
More than neglect, there is a positive disdain for anything that smacks of professionalism: training, preparation or the patient and painful mastery of the literature, difficulty by difficulty. The Harvard musician thinks he is above all that, and sees no reason why he should not tackle the most difficult works at the start. He's knowledgeable and versed enough in recordings to know which pieces are considered the best and the most difficult and it's hard for him to see how anything else would be worth his while...
...reading up on medicine, he was careful never to perform an operation; as hospital director, he was able to confine his medical practice to diagnosis. But his true talent lay in administering the clinic and giving instinctively deft psychological help. In his carefully chosen specialty, the attitude of aged patients is often far more important than actual medical treatment. The kindhearted amputee, who had himself obviously suffered so much, was just the man to understand and salve a patient's problems...
They concluded that the catheter was stimulating the pharynx, the upper segment of the throat. The resulting impulses given out by the complex nerves in and around the pharynx somehow interrupted the impulses driving the hiccups. The pharynx-stimulating technique has been tried on 100 patients, both conscious and unconscious. The catheter was introduced through either nose or mouth and was used to tickle or vibrate the middle section of the pharynx. The result in all but one case was immediate cessation of hiccups. It is hardly convenient for use at home. But if it works as well...