Word: patient
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact that our political system is truly democratic, the premium for obtaining an agreement is much higher for the President than for the Soviet General Secretary." Still, he adds, because "the asymmetries between them and us are so favorable to us in every aspect, we can afford to be patient. The scalingdown of the levels [of atomic warheads] is the most urgent business of SALT...
...apnea (literally, want of breath). During a single night, they may wake up 400 or 500 times. These interruptions are so brief, only a few seconds or so, that apnea victims are usually totally unaware of them and at a loss to explain the morning-after blahs. When these patients take their complaint to a doctor, they usually get no help. The problem is that the physician sees the patient in the daytime and has no way of knowing the underlying cause of the malaise. Often the most he can do is to prescribe some sleeping pills, which generally prove...
First, the sleep clinicians probe deeply into a patient's sleep habits−for example, by questioning his bed partner. They also video-tape his slumber behavior in special sleeping rooms, where patients spend the night hooked up to a polygraph, a lie-detector-like machine that monitors sleep-related physiological functions (breathing, muscle twitching, rapid eye movement...
...cutting an opening into the windpipe and thus totally bypassing the blocked breathing passage. First introduced in apnea a decade ago, such operations . have now been performed on about 30 Americans at the 20 U.S. sleep centers now in existence. The procedure is relatively simple, but leaves the patient with a hole in his throat...
...patient is a minor, or is unable to sign a release statement, his patient or legal guardian is authorized to do so, Jackson said...