Word: patient
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Balthazar figures that he can treat people for an average cost of about $1 per patient. He adds: "It costs the state more than that just to process a claim...
...most satisfying tribute is from his own patients, who eagerly do anything they can to please him -scrubbing floors, washing windows, even baking casseroles for his lunch. In fact, when a woman patient recently sued him for malpractice (because of a scar left by the successful treatment of a facial malignancy), other patients were incensed. "Around here," said one, "suing Dr. Bal is like suing God." Balthazar, who refuses to carry malpractice insurance, easily won his case...
...cent shooting average in the second half also helped the Green. Dartmouth has a "very patient offense," explained Welch. "They look for the best shot...
Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, who helped form the service at the beginning of this year to "preserve some amenities" for students, said yesterday students should be patient despite the inconvenience...
...made of "sage, marjoram, elderbuds, ashbuds, berberis, liquorice, aniseed, aloes and juniper berries." He seems to have reassured people more than he treated them, and that was probably for the best, given the primitive state of medical science and the appalling maladies of the time. Confronted with a patient who "breeds worms in his nose of stinking sweet and venomous humor," Forman sensibly recommended a change in diet and frequent face washing...