Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wholly voluntary, combining health insurance with group practice. Its services will be provided by teams of doctors, each composed of some 25 selected general practitioners, surgeons and specialists. Each doctor will have some 800 "patients" (sick and well), will be paid about $20 a year per patient...
...member can choose his group and "family doctor," is entitled to 24-hour service. An internist will take care of the patient's stomachaches, an obstetrician will shepherd his wife through maternity, a pediatrician will look after his children -and nobody will worry about fees...
...Detroit's Mt. Carmel Hospital, surgeons crowded around operating tables for the show. One of them deftly slit open a patient's abdomen and explored the cavity. In an outburst of surgeon's humor, a colleague boomed: "Now watch him botch it; never fails to mess it up when he tries to show off." (But the operation, a clinic demonstration, was a success.) Amid such scenes, sawbones of 16 nations got together last week for their first international meeting since before...
About one surgery patient in a thousand dies under anesthetic. The usual emergency treatment, when a patient's heart stops, is artificial respiration and an adrenalin injection into the heart. Mr. Bailey said he had abandoned this uncertain, time-consuming method for more direct action. He cuts open the abdomen below the ribs with a sweep of the knife, grasps the exposed heart with his right hand and squeezes it like a bulb. After a few minutes' massage, Mr. Bailey triumphantly reported, some of his patients' hearts began to beat of their own accord, and the patients...
...Evening Journal offered its readers this one-paragraph scoop on the first full-dress demonstration of anesthesia. The show had been shrewdly staged by publicity-wise, 27-year-old Dentist William Thomas Green Morton and a Journal reporter named Albert Tenney. Dr. Morton's "preparation," fed to the patient through a tube from a corked flask, was ether, disguised with aromatic essences to hide the "secret." The operation, conducted by Dr. John Collins Warren, frock-coated chief surgeon of Massachusetts General Hospital, made a profound impression on doctors and medical students in the small, gloomy amphitheater. Cried Dr. Warren...