Word: patient
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...area of American life is personal service so precious as in medical care. Here, too, the computer has become a humanizing factor; the patient tends to give a more candid account of his symptoms, regimen and medical history to a machine programmed to ask the proper preliminary questions than to a harassed and possibly intimidating doctor...
...this column hasn't made any sense so far, please be patient. Help...
...didn't score as much as we like, but that didn't bother us. We played with a lot of patience, and if a team is patient, opportunities will come. Our offense clicked at times, but we had trouble finishing off our plays. We are beginning to gel and we're waiting for a explosion," the Minnesota native said...
DIED. Dr. Armand James Quick, 83, renowned medical researcher who did pioneer work on blood disorders; in Milwaukee. Soon after getting his M.D. from Cornell, he developed what came to be known as the Quick test, a method of determining the clotting ability of a patient's blood and of helping to diagnose various diseases. Later research led to new tests for hemophilia. Working at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, he recently identified a new vitamin, appropriately named vitamin Q, which is found in soybean extract and which plays a part in the body's control...
...about two-thirds of Brent's patients have been children born minus an ear, and he likes to treat them young, before they have to face schoolmates' cruel kidding. His youngest patient to date was three, which meant there was still time for a new ear to grow a bit. Normally, an ear reaches near-adult size by age six. One of his happy patients is Lance Chervony, 5, of San Jose. He seemed untroubled by lack of a normal ear, though it attracted playground attention. Now in school after a Brent operation, he displays...