Word: patient
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...both soldier and politician, Nguyen Van Thieu has fought the Communist menace from the North, and it remains his abiding passion today. "We must be as patient as the Communists are," he mused last January. "My son, my grandson, my great-grandson must be patient." As for himself, Thieu added: "I will never desert. I may be overthrown, but I will never desert...
...medical dictionaries phrase it, "an absence of hope," differs from garden-variety glumness as, say, double pneumonia differs from sniffles. It is not a new ailment; doctors have known about it for centuries. But medicine has only recently learned how to treat it Merely telling a patient that his fears are groundless does no good at all. Conventional psychoanalysis is equally ineffective in most cases; Knauth visited a Freudian therapist for six months without exorcising any of his personal demons...
...hours' sleep himself while his partner watched the ward. But at 7 p.m. the hospital admitted a heart-attack victim, and Condon's plans quickly changed. While the other intern took over the ward, Condon and the resident administered powerful drugs and oxygen to the patient. When he failed to respond, they inserted a tube in his windpipe to assist his breathing. In an effort to ease the burden on the patient's heart and lungs, they drew off some of his blood and then infused only the red cells back to him over a period...
...that evening, as Condon prepared to leave for home, he learned that despite the intensive care, his heart-attack patient had died. The intern then had to call the patient's family, notify them of the death and ask permission to perform an autopsy...
Condon admits that such hectic shifts are not routine, but feels that for him they occur too often. He believes that tired physicians may overlook things in their examinations and "minimize the symptoms." He argues that, while fatigue is bad for a physician, it is even worse for his patient...