Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dermatologists at M.G.H. and the All-gemeines Krankenhausen in Vienna have modernized that technique. The new treatment combines the use of a drug called methoxsalen, which is extracted from the Egyptian plant, and an extraordinary high-intensity ultraviolet light. First the dermatologists have the patient swallow methoxsalen pills. Then they stand him in a telephone-booth-size closet lined with 48 of the special ultraviolet tubes. The patient stays in the booth from eight to 30 minutes, depending upon his degree of skin coloration...
...that Misch isn't a comedian at all-he's a lyricist. When he jogs on stage with a couple of guitars and one-liners flying, you're not sure if you are going to hear a twenty-year-old Henny Youngman or a nervous Pete Seeger. But be patient. Misch fuses comedy and song and comes up with some of the funniest lyrics since the days of Tom Lehrer...
...left breast, Urban cut out a thin wedge of tissue above her right nipple and sent this to the pathology laboratory, where part of it was immediately fast-frozen and sliced paper thin. The microscope gave no clear indication of cancer in this test, which was completed while the patient was still on the operating table. So Urban had no reason to cut farther. But the remainder of the tissue was fixed in paraffin for more detailed examination-a process that takes 24 hours or more. Next day, the more clearly stained paraffin sections revealed a group of cancerous cells...
Then it was both too late and too early to remove the right breast-too late because the operation was over and too soon because the patient was in the early stages of convalescence and slightly anemic. Urban told Nelson Rockefeller the facts, and they agreed to withhold the word from Happy until she was well enough to undergo a second operation...
Thomas O. Pyle, executive vice president of the plan, said patient membership had increased at a rate of 1500 a month for the past three months. The plan currently has 35,000 members at the Kenmore Square center and 7000 the Cambridge center...