Word: patient
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...young patient talks to his visitors-including his parents and a teacher who comes to help him with school-work every afternoon-through the open doorway or a transparent plastic barrier; this wall has two sleeve-and-glove arrangements that allow people to reach into the room and play checkers or cards with Teddy without contaminating him. Books, magazines and games-sterilized by steam or gases -are passed into the room through the doorway. Food, too, must be specially prepared. Even Teddy's favorite fare, pizza, is so thoroughly baked that it is practically unrecognizable...
Doctors' Strategy. Though aplastic anemia is not a form of cancer, doctors at NCI were particularly interested in Teddy's case for what it might teach them about treating patients with leukemia and other types of cancer who develop aplastic anemia because of their anticancer therapy. The strategy of Teddy's doctors was to give him transfusions of red blood cells and platelets to keep him alive, plus hormones and other drugs to stimulate bone-marrow activity (it is impractical to inject patients regularly with normal white cells both because white cells ordinarily live only a short...
...cases involves Dr. Eugene R. Balthazar, the founder of a highly regarded free clinic in Aurora, Ill. (TIME, Jan. 26), who was accused of malpractice by a woman treated for a facial malignancy. Though the patient's suit was tossed out of court, Balthazar and a colleague felt that they had been needlessly harassed. Charging "reckless disregard for the truth" and malicious prosecution, they are seeking only nominal damages of $2 from the woman but $20,600 from her two lawyers. Another Illinois doctor has taken a different stance: he has charged a patient's lawyer with barratry...
Indeed, the Illinois State Medical Society feels that overeager attorneys are often the instigators of malpractice suits. At times, says Joel Edelman, the society's counsel, lawyers bring suit against doctors without even consulting with the patient, simply listing all medical personnel remotely connected with the case. In a suit involving four Chicago-area hospitals, 116 people were named as defendants, half of them nurses...
Doctors elsewhere in the U.S. are fighting back. The journal Medical Economics reports that one oral surgeon in the East was awarded $4,500 in damages, plus costs, from a patient who had claimed malpractice. At a preliminary hearing in Fort Pierce, Fla., a judge recently set a Florida precedent by letting stand an orthopedic surgeon's charge of "malicious prosecution" in his separate $1.5 million countersuits against two former patients and their lawyers. Though the cases have yet to be tried, the doctor's attorney, Ellis Rubin, thinks that they have already had a chastening effect...