Word: patient
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...seems to be all too typical in Philadelphia. Police have also been accused of severely beating a black gas-station owner, a white college student and a British musician. In July, a cop with a previous record of assault shot and killed José Reyes, 28, a former mental patient, in the doorway of his home. The police say he was threatening the cop, but a witness told TIME Correspondent James Willwerth that Reyes had stumbled and "was goin' in the house on all fours" when the policeman, .standing over him, fired twice. The episode inflamed Reyes' Puerto...
According to Dr. David W. Fraser, of the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, the newly virulent pneumococcal strains have so far appeared only in South Africa. But that is no cause for complacency. Tests showed that staff members at Baragwanath and 80 patients at another Johannesburg hospital also harbored the new strain. Though some showed no symptoms of pneumonia, others became ill and one patient died. The danger, says Epidemiologist Fraser, is that patients' relatives and hospital staff members can carry the bacteria in their throats and remain well, yet transmit the infection to others who will become...
...hospital there were mercifully few patients requiring Koch's attention. Only half a dozen beds were occupied, none by patients with active leprosy. One patient had a febrile illness; another was having kidney trouble; a third was staying in the hospital because he was too emotionally disturbed to live alone outside. Outpatients dropped in during the morning for Koch to treat ulcers-most of them located on their hands and feet-that had originally been caused by leprosy and then complicated by other infections. Some came to have the doctor renew their prescriptions for medicine-not, in most cases...
...public awareness that for most ethnic groups, leprosy is one of the least contagious of all diseases. Koch estimates that 90%, perhaps even as many as 99% of Caucasians could not catch leprosy if they tried-not even by living in marital contact with a patient for many years...
...member Soviet delegation boycotted the debate over the censure -"We consider it rigged," said one delegate-but argued outside the halls that the charges were preposterous. After Dissident Mathematician Leonid Plyushch appeared at a press conference and told of his harassment and incarceration as a mental patient, Babayan said "Plyushch is mentally sick. Now that he lives in the West, you will see him and study him in the future. There never was a single case when a healthy person was placed in a mental hospital...