Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lahey charged that Army & Navy hospitals in the U.S. can hardly keep their personnel busy, while "in civilian hospitals, beds are 'hot,' and there is barely time to change the sheets between one patient and the next...
Room 301 in St. Mary's Hospital in Rochester, Minn, has light-cream walls and a southeast-corner view, the patient noted. To the Clinic staff, even to his brisk, dark-haired Nurse Mary Conway, the patient was just another one of the 100,000 who come to Mayo's each year. But to Franklin Roosevelt, anxiously reading the wired reports, the man in 301 was much more important...
There is a doctor in Mexico City who gives insulin for practically anything-typhoid fever, syphilis, peritonitis, malaria, rheumatic fever. Dr. (and Lieut. Colonel) Donate Perez Garcia gives enough insulin to bring a patient to shock stage (perspiration, high pulse, coma, high blood acidity), then he injects a solution of glucose by vein to neutralize the insulin and bring the patient to. Mixed with the glucose is the drug ordinarily used to fight whatever disease he is treating. Dr. Perez Garcia believes that the insulin makes the bacteria succumb more easily to the drug...
Doctors of the San Diego Naval Hospital went over to Tijuana to hear Dr. Perez Garcia. They were impressed. They invited him over to treat a few stubborn cases of malaria and rheumatic fever. A malaria patient had no more fever after his first shock. (Dr. Garcia's full course of treatment is usually four shocks, five days apart.) One rheumatic fever patient, after one treatment, refused to go on. But of the other two, one got well, the other improved...
...patient entered the hospital every two seconds. Hospitals also received a "dividend" of "one live baby every 16.3 seconds...