Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rheumatic fever is hard to diagnose. Its symptoms-fever, aching joints ("growing pains"), nosebleeds, loss of appetite and weight, twitching resembling St. Vitus' dance-are easily confused with the symptoms of grippe and other ailments. Patients may recover from an attack without permanent damage, often without knowing they were really sick. But unless the patient gets skillful treatment, R.F. may .recur...
...rescue man's duty only ceases when a competent medical authority has taken over even though the patient may have been dead for hours. When ambulances are lacking, the red truck must often carry injured persons to a hospital...
...trained first aid workers, educated in this specially at a local fire college. Their schooling showed up a Boston doctor on one occasion when the M.D. stated that a victim of heart disease wouldn't live out the night. With a combination inhalator and resuscitation firemen worked over the patient for 12 hours. She is alive today...
When a speeding auto knocked an undergraduate to the ground one month ago in front of Memorial Hall, the Rescue Squad of the Cambridge Fire Department was on hand to care for the patient for a city-wide service that lends daily aid to victims of accidents, heart attacks, fires, and suicide...
...gently self-destructive. Thenceforth she would be bombarded by the ultraviolet and infrared rays peculiar to Hollywood, and the anthropophagous attentions most peculiar of all to MGM. She might imagine M-G-M saying, like the doctor in James Thurber's cartoon: You're not my patient, Miss Kerr, you're my meat...