Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...frail, doddery Mr. Dickinson's health, driving with him back & forth to the Governor's Charlotte farm (20 miles from Lansing), where Mr. Dickinson putters in his garden. Dr. Moyer also spends a good deal of time behind a newspaper in the gubernatorial office, occasionally offering his patient nuggets of statesman'y wisdom ("I have a few ideas about government, too"). For these services, he receives $3,000 a year from the State as a medical secretary...
...Many persons . . . who have passed their sixtieth year vaguely feel that it is time they were done with sex as a personal issue." This makes them feel isolated, unattractive, frustrated. Despite Freud's admission that psychoanalysis is applicable only to young, elastic personalities, Dr. Hamilton claims that patient analysis brings peace and equanimity to many an old heart...
...more than $1,000,000 from University of Wisconsin's budget, told University President Clarence A. Dykstra at a budget hearing: "Something is smoldering somewhere and I want to clean it up. I want to get rid of this cancerous growth or kill the patient...
...hovered over his bed, took samples of his sputum to type the pneumococci that had attacked him, samples of his blood to type him for transfusions. They covered him with an oxygen tent, inoculated him with pneumonia serum, fed him the famed pneumonia specific, sulfapyridine. Mercy Hospital's Patient No. 1939-2468 was a very special case: he was the junior partner of America's most famous medical team-Dr. Charles Horace Mayo. As it does with the greatest efficiency for 80,000 patients a year in the great Mayo Clinic at Rochester, Minn., medical science...
Rich & Poor. Last year the millionth Mayo patient passed through the Clinic doors. In a half-century of partnership the Mayos have made millions, but they have restricted themselves and their staff to small salaries, have turned back their surplus profits to the Clinic and the University of Minnesota. In 1915 they founded a graduate school in connection with the University of Minnesota. Shrewd, dignified Dr. Will, now 77 and recovering in Rochester from a gastric ulcer operation, has managed finances with an eagle eye. Poor patients (approximately one-fourth of the Mayo practice) pay nothing, sometimes get checks instead...