Word: patient
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While the new legislation will help to protect doctors and ease the financial problems facing their insurers, none of the measures proposed-or enacted into law-thus far would do very much for the wronged patient. That omission is unfortunate. Though malpractice suits are sometimes frivolous and awards undeserved or unrealistically high, many claims are brought by patients grievously injured by the mistakes of their physicians...
South Africa's adventurous surgeon Christiaan Barnard startled the scientific world late last year by announcing that he had not only given a patient a new heart but had left most of the old one, still beating, in place (TIME, Dec. 9). Although the world's first twin-heart patient, an engineer named Ivan Taylor, died early in April, Barnard is still satisfied that his surgical spectacular was a success. The death, he explained last week, was not directly related to the operation. Taylor died not because his body rejected the new heart but as a result...
...coloring that combines with all cell components. The malignant cells are not only differentiated by color but by the rate at which they take up the dye; they become stained before healthy cells do. Sternheimer's test must still be tried on a large number of patients and evaluated before its effectiveness can be established. But it has already shown its potential for detecting cancers early. When a patient at Michael Reese for treatment of an eye ailment recently underwent a battery of lab tests, Sternheimer's test suggested that he had cancer of the bladder. Surgery confirmed...
JACKSON'S anguish is revealed, in an hour long conversation with a psychiatric specialist, in a way that makes Rag more of a documentary than a structured dramatic work. There is no real interplay between the patient and doctor--who seems to be no more than a vehicle for exposing Jackson's story to the audience. Jackson offers an incident or impression and the doctor probes until we have learned the significance. From such an intense, personal conversation we would expect some rapport to develop between the men, but the only development in the play is that the story becomes...
...doctor, really meant that "we're on our own. April 19, and then it's over." Commented Saigon's Chinh Luan newspaper: "This speech came to South Viet Nam just as a final touch of a magician seeking to give a few more minutes of life to a dying patient...