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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Patients have been saying it for years: Hospital food is wretchedly prepared and totally lacking in flavor. Now a noted nutritionist adds a more serious complaint. Dr. Charles E. Butterworth Jr., director of the nutrition program at the University of Alabama in Birmingham and chairman of the A.M.A.'s Council on Foods and Nutrition, charges that hospital diets are often inadequate to maintain a patient's health-and sometimes so bad as to actually worsen it. "I suspect," writes Butterworth in Nutrition Today, "that one of the largest pockets of unrecognized malnutrition in America exists not in rural...
...gathered on visits to a number of hospitals and from a more intensive study in one of the institutions associated with the University of Alabama's medical center. He found that hospitals and doctors frequently slight nutritional needs. Some institutions allow surgery to be performed without first building patients up for the ordeal, then compound the error after the operation by ignoring good nutrition and relying solely on antibiotics to guard against infection. All too often, the postoperative neglect continues until the patient reaches an advanced state of malnutrition. Of 80 patients studied at the University of Alabama...
...surgery patient in Butterworth's study grew steadily weaker, languishing in a hospital for 50 days until the doctors realized that he was suffering from a severe protein deficiency and scurvy; only then did they begin giving him the extra nutrients he needed to recover. He was more fortunate than another patient who received no vitamin supplements during 35 days in the intensive-care unit after open-heart surgery. He lost more than 30 lbs., developed irreversible malnutrition and died...
...technically "proved"-but he is literally betting that it will be. "I have a reporting system," he points out, "and I offer a bottle of Scotch to any doctor in the U.S. who can send me a report of a clearly diagnosed case of Parkinson's in a patient born since 1931. So far it's cost me 14 bottles-just 14 of these younger patients identified since 1961." If Poskanzer is right, Parkinsonism will subside with the passing of the generation born in the early 1900s and now in their...
...treatments, which continue for two years, have thus far produced few of methotrexate's more dangerous side effects-many patients have survived far longer than the usual year or less after amputation. Of 10 patients with metastatic disease treated at Boston since 1971, two have had complete recoveries and two have had partial ones; one patient, who has been off treatment for a year, is still totally free of cancer...