Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dental Fleece. In Columbus, S.C., Dentist C. B. Draffin stepped out of his office and a stranger stepped in, collected $10 in advance for repairs on a patient's plates, quickly stepped out again...
...worker rate (60? a person a week). More than half of the present 40,000 subscribers are now non-shipbuilders. The hospitals' 80 doctors, who have a good record for operations, are convinced that their best work has been in keeping people from getting very sick. A patient gets care when he begins to need it, rather than when he can no longer...
...Zealand's highly praised "free" medical system, which costs a subscriber 2½% of his pay, is in trouble. The plan has fostered the best hospitalization system in the world, but it has also fostered profiteering doctors. Allowed to charge for every patient they see, a few greedy doctors do literally that: charge as much for a glimpse as for a complete physical. Others rush patients through their offices at the rate of twelve an hour. Some New Zealand lawmakers are considering putting doctors on flat salaries. But some experts think they would do better to adopt Britain...
...hospital nursery cries for about two hours a day-and always with good reason. The Rochester (Minn.) researchers who found this out commented, in the Proceedings of the Staff Meetings of the Mayo Clinic: "One would question the nursing care of adults in a hospital where the average adult patient had to ring the service bell for two hours every...
...least a well-anaesthetized operation. Said Bank Governor Lord Thomas Sivewright Catto, after reading the bill: "I have confidence in the skill and understanding of the surgeon [Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Dalton]. . . . He is well aware of the venerable age and the worldwide prestige of his patient...