Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whereas the Palestinians want to win their right to a "foothold" within modern Israel (situated in once ancient Israel) through the use of terror, violence and destruction, the returning Jews have earned it through their patient work, building and developing neglected, desolate, malaria-infested land that nobody wanted 100 years...
...surgical team, headed by Hickman, performed the relatively simple operation (see box) in 70 minutes, and Nixon was wheeled back to his seventh-floor room (for security reasons he is the only patient on the floor), where standard postoperative care got under way. The seventh floor, however, had an advantage beyond privacy that was soon to be needed. Only recently completed, this floor is about to become the hospital's intensive-care unit, and all of the complex monitoring and life-preserving equipment for the unit was in place and functioning...
...former President has no medical insurance. As Chief Executive, Nixon chose not to enroll in the Government's health-insurance plan, which could have been transferred to a private insurer when he left office. He could have used a military hospital, but Lungren apparently insisted on admitting his patient to Long Beach Memorial, probably because it contains the elaborate technical equipment that Nixon's case might require. The rate for Nixon's room was $90 a day until Oct. 1, then went to $94; the intensive care he is now receiving costs $250 a day. His bill...
...supply of oxygen to the tissues. This can result from heart attacks, clots in the lung, overwhelming, severe drug reaction, trauma or other causes. In Nixon's case, it was thought that he was suffering a serious loss of blood. Bleeding can occur in any operation when the patient has been treated with anticoagulant drugs and thus has dangerously reduced clotting factors in his blood. Before operating, most surgeons try to counteract the effects of the anticoagulants to restore the patient's clotting factors...
...strong as ever, but by most accounts, Nixon has often been depressed since he left the White House. Some doctors believe that Nixon's illness could be caused by his mental set (TIME, Sept. 23), and many physicians feel that there is a link between a patient's recovery in a situation like Nixon's and the patient's mood. Indeed, unless surgery is imperative, as it was thought to be in Nixon's case, many surgeons do not like to operate on a patient when he is depressed...