Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thin and yellow and bottom less, rose against the stilts of the nipa shacks. It flowed level in the roads after the passage of each floundering truck; then lay mockingly smooth again, like rainswept concrete. It cut off villages and made islands of houses. The patient carabao stood happily up to their bellies; chickens and pigs lived on the porches...
...lectured on it, months before-a tracheotomy (incision into the windpipe) to provide an air entrance through the neck. (Common peacetime use: to save children strangling from diphtheria.) Even under the best conditions, the operation is risky; surgical books say that a good light is essential, that the patient's neck must be held very steady to avoid cutting the nearby jugular veins. While Lieut. Eberling held the struggling rifleman down, Private Kinman had to do as best he could by the murky light of the battlefield...
Said Private Kinman to the patient, as he opened his jackknife: "I don't like to do this, but it is the only way you are going to live." He made a vertical incision in the exact middle of the wounded man's neck stopped the blood as well as he could,' made an up & down cut in the windpipe, which he wedged open with the top of a fountain pen. "Now," he said, "keep that pen in your windpipe and you'll be O.K. You can't breathe through your nose or mouth...
...arguments of the opposition (principally the conservative American Medical Association): 1) the bill is a threat to freedom because it might restrict a patient's free choice of physicians; 2) it might cut the doctor's income by putting an end to fee-for-service; 3) it might lower the standards of medical care; 4) it would probably put control of U.S. medicine in the hands of lay bureaucrats; 5) anyone in the U.S. needing medical care can get it right now (free, if necessary), if he will go to the trouble of asking...
This battle-born first-aid treatment (which Major Mustard says has been previously demonstrated on animals, but never before on human beings): a glass tube is fitted into the pulsing ends of a severed artery, bridging the gap so that the wounded member may live until the patient is strong enough to stand an operation. Intravenous injections of heparin prevent dangerous clotting in the tube...