Word: patient
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Whether mass mammography will continue is to be decided in the next weeks, after further study by the National Cancer Institute that will include a poll of women Government workers in Bethesda. Asked how he would advise a patient if he were still in medical practice, Dr. Guy R. Newell, NCI'S deputy director, said that he would have no hesitation recommending mammography for any woman over 50. "For a woman under 50," he added, "I would tell her that there is a risk attached to the X-ray technique, a small risk that she might get breast cancer...
...Addison-Wesley; $9.95, hardcover; $5.95, paperback), "even the most elaborate checkups ... do not detect early and treatable diseases with any regularity." Dr. Russell Roth, a longtime Erie, Pa., urologist and former A.M.A. president, concurs. In 35 years of routine rectal examinations, he reports, he has discovered in only one patient an ailment that lent itself to treatment. Even if diseases could be easily detected in checkups, adds Dr. William Keith Morgan of West Virginia University's School of Medicine, "patients are probably better off not knowing they are going to die of Huntington's chorea or multiple sclerosis...
...have been unable to take advantage of the Jewish state's abundant medical talent; with 2.5 doctors for every 1,000 people, that nation has one of the world's highest concentrations of physicians. Now, though, in a number of limited ways, the ancient relationship between Arab patient and Jewish healer is quietly being revived across the Middle East's bristling frontiers...
Unless the Arab patient can afford it, the Israeli government usually picks up the tab. Such generosity is not without political overtones; it not only undermines Arab belligerence but also counters complaints-recently voiced by the Arabs and their supporters before the World Health Organization-that Israel is giving inadequate medical care to Arabs under its own rule. Basri, however, has no illusions about any diplomatic payoff from Doctor. "We're all waiting for peace," she observes, "but the sick can't wait...
...televised spectacular, "Meet Your Next President." Television and the political party are thus engaged in a reluctant arms-length collaboration that exemplifies television's odd split personality, combining private enterprise and public service. Television begins the week as a persistent inquisitor and ends up as the patient conduit of a celebration. As solutions go, this one is ramshackle, Rube Goldbergishly American, but has its merits. The print journalists, though second-class citizens on the sidelines, are the true independents who give the convention whatever coherence and reflectiveness it gets...