Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...half an hour, delegates debated; five members rose to praise Franklin Roosevelt. John L., never a patient man, grew impatient. After all, said he, why all the talk? There was nothing to debate. Up rose Negro Delegate S. B. Lawrence of Alabama: "Brethren, let us follow the leadership of John L. Lewis." The brethren did. (Campaigning in Idaho, Tom Dewey hastily pointed out that the resolution did not specifically endorse...
Extraction. In Chicago, Dr. Cecil Fisher complained that a young lady patient fainted in his examination chair, removed $175 from his pocket while being revived...
...enough doctors sign up, medical care will be provided by an open panel of doctors (any doctor on the panel may be selected by the patient) on fixed fees. Otherwise, the plan will resort to a closed panel of doctors on salaries ranging from $6,000 to $20,000 a year and grouped throughout the city in centers designed to serve about 100,000 people each...
...Mystify. The Commission made no report on metrazol and electric shock treatment, because they are too new to permit thorough follow-up studies. Both have the advantage that they take less time per treatment than insulin shock (electric shock is the cheapest type) and do not require watching a patient's every breath for hours - insulin shock patients may go into irreversible shock and fatal convulsions. Both metrazol and electric shock have the disadvantage that the "fits" they produce are violent and may cause a patient to hurt himself. As many as half the metrazol patients used...
...patient is given increasing doses of insulin each day until a day arrives when he goes into a coma. On succeeding days, he gets the same dose or slightly less, with the object of keeping him under about three hours. He is brought out by a sugary drink or injection, after which he has a psychiatric interview and a big, late breakfast...