Word: patient
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This procedure requires a patient's signed release form and photo identification for the release of records. Lawyers, insurance companies, and other outside parties must also present identification and have the patient's written consent in order to see his records...
...doctors. There were four in the Hughes entourage,-but they were not on an equal footing or in agreement about their patient. There had been an argument with one of them because he had refused to apply for a narcotics license, and this had angered Hughes...
...summon Dr. Thain back to Acapulco. Jack Real was instructed to rustle up a jet plane, and the aides located Dr. Thain through his secretary. The plane picked up the doctor in Fort Lauderdale late Sunday night and rushed him back to the Mexican resort and his dying patient. [When it became plain that Hughes would have to be moved, he was washed and barbered.] Equipment for intravenous feeding was flown in from Los Angeles...
...doctors explained to him, he told reporters later, that Hughes was a difficult patient, "that some times he refused medicine and food. And once he had refused, that was final. Nobody could change his mind...
...entourage went through the old familiar rituals of secrecy, masquerade, and concealment. Before they removed Hughes, they reserved a suite at the Houston Methodist Hospital for him in the name of "J.T. Conover." They put a Houston ambulance on a stand-by alert at the airport for an unnamed patient "suffering from diabetes...