Word: patient
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...rate) in a decade and now total more than the country spends on national defense. One reason for the soaring costs is more sophisticated care, but another is the "third party" problem -more than 90% of hospital bills are paid by various forms of insurance instead of by the patient or the hospital...
...trypanosomes, the parasites change their coats and force the immune system to mount a new counterattack. This game of immunological hide-and-seek recurs throughout the course of the disease. The parasites become more and more deeply entrenched in the victim's brain and nervous system, and the patient progressively weakens...
...thousands of seriously ill people who are participating in an extraordinary program of outpatient hospital care. Begun in 1960 to cut rising costs of New Zealand's largely free, womb-to-tomb national health system, the scheme has kept expenses at about 500 a day for each extramural patient in the greater Auckland area (pop. 800,000), compared with the average $41 daily price tag for in-patient care. It has also saved at least 3,000 additional hospital beds, while at the same time making life more bearable for tens of thousands of patients...
...Such aid is particularly important for elderly couples if, say, one partner has had a stroke and the other can no longer cope with the chores. A "meals-on-wheels" service, manned by volunteers-mainly from the Red Cross-delivers some 1,000 hot trays a day. If the patient needs help, the volunteer can quickly summon a nurse, social worker or the patient's family physician, who retains overall charge of the case. Says Susan Foss: "Five days a week I await the footsteps of the people from Extramural and their bright faces...
Died. Charles McMoran Wilson, Lord Moran, 94, Winston Churchill's personal physician and confidant for 25 years; in Hampshire, England. Moran gave up his private practice in 1940 after members of the Cabinet persuaded him to care for Churchill, then 65. The doctor and his patient shared an interest in history and literature and together traveled 140,000 miles to strategy conferences during World War II. Moran's Churchill ... The Struggle for Survival, 1940-65, an account of Sir Winston's fight against pneumonia, two strokes and gradual senescence, stirred the ire of Churchill's family...