Word: patient
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Saundra Graham is patient when City Council meetings drag on into the small hours of the morning--as a four-term incumbent and state representative, not to mention a leader of the state's Black Political Caucus--Graham is used to long meetings...
Prominent teaching institutions have given hospitalized patients this right since the suit that led to the recent decision was filed in April, 1975, Thomas G. Gutheil, acting director of the adult in-patient services at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, said yesterday...
...going to be a very difficult decision to deal with," William J. Curran, Lee Professor of Legal Medicine, said yesterday. "It's a good basic legal principle to be able to refuse treatment. But this is not always in the best interest of the patient. They are making rulings that seem to be helping the rights of people, but don't seem to be helping their welfare," he added...
...Atlantic, U.S. Physicist Allan Cormack, 55, of Tufts University, and Research Engineer Godfrey Hounsfield, 60, of the British firm EMI Ltd., brooded over the same mathematical puzzle and independently reached the same solution. The puzzle: how to produce an X-ray image of tissue at any depth within a patient. The result: the CAT (for computerized axial tomography) scanner, a medical marvel now used in hospitals round the world. Last week the two scientists learned that they have something else in common: they will share the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and its accompanying cash award...
Cormack took the first step. A native of Johannesburg, South Africa, he became intrigued in 1956 by the difficulty doctors had in obtaining X-ray pictures of the brain. Because the cranium is so thick, they could make an X-ray beam "see" an abnormality only by injecting a patient with tracer dyes or air bubbles. When Cormack immigrated to the U.S. that year (he became an American citizen a decade later), he began exploring the physics of how X rays pass through differing body parts. Dividing this passage into cross-sectional slices, he found he could calculate the absorption...