Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anyone who paints elephant-nosed women and six-sided guitars, and calls them art, should obviously see an oculist -or a doctor. But what if the patient can draw like Raphael when he chooses...
...automatically when the blood pressure reaches normal. ¶ It requires less blood (some dogs regained normal blood pressure after 20% of their drained blood was returned). ¶ It gives a quick check on internal hemorrhage: if arterial pressure continues to drop after transfusion starts, the doctor knows that the patient is bleeding somewhere, and that he must operate immediately to tie off the bleeding vessels...
Said a doctor at a recent doctors' meeting: "Anyone in the room who has never helped a suffering patient die, please raise his hand...
Ringleader of this aggressive revival of an old argument: Dr. Robert Latou Dickinson, sprightly, 85-year-old president of the society, gynecologist, artist, marriage counselor. He had drawn a bill for "dignified, merciful" killing. Under it, any patient over 21 who found life unbearable could apply to a court for permission to die; if an investigating committee of doctors and laymen approved, his doctor would get authorization to end his life painlessly (e.g., by a narcotic). The bill would do nothing about imbeciles or children born monstrously deformed...
...Allowances for patients' maintenance (less than $400 a year per patient) are barely enough to sustain life...