Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proved; a New York court recently awarded Tracy Gamell, 12, a total of $2,110,000 for brain damage suffered shortly after her birth at a Manhattan hospital. Nor, apparently, is negligence the only ground for a successful suit. Juries seem to be taking the attitude that when a patient dies during surgery his family is entitled to compensation, and they are calling upon insurance companies to provide...
...patient who will ultimately bear the burden of increased costs. Many doctors now try to protect themselves against lawsuits by running extra tests and taking additional X rays, the price of which is reflected on the patient's bill. Physicians generally resent the need to practice such "defensive medicine" but feel that it is absolutely necessary. "We are shivering in our boots," says Dr. John Gregory, a Bronxville, N.Y., obstetrician. "We sometimes find that we face almost every patient more as an adversary than a friend." Gregory and his partners in practice protect themselves by ordering a wide range...
Higher bills, however, could be the least serious result of climbing malpractice costs. In 1965 the House Medical Group of Los Angeles was successfully sued by a patient who was partly paralyzed in a risky operation that nonetheless saved her life. Remembering that experience, Dr. William House, an ear surgeon, said he would now hesitate before performing a similar procedure...
...spreads rapidly. By the time doctors can tell that the pain in a youngster's arm or leg is the product of such a tumor, the odds are strong that microscopic clusters of malignant cells have already reached the lungs. Removing the primary tumor by amputation saves the patient from early death. But in 80% of the 150 cases of this cancer reported among patients under age 15 in the U.S. annually, a secondary tumor appears in the lungs within a year. In most of the cases, death follows six to nine painful months later...
Rescue Effort. At the Children's Cancer Research Foundation in Boston, Drs. Emil Frei III and Norman Jaffe have used the methotrexate-CFR treatment on Edward Kennedy Jr. (TIME, Dec. 3), and on 20 other patients. Methotrexate-CFR treatment is begun soon after amputation. Patients enter the hospital and receive a continuous intravenous infusion of methotrexate for six hours, during which they may be given more than 100 times the standard dose of the drug. Two hours after the methotrexate infusions are completed, the rescue effort begins. The patient is given citrovorum factor, first by injection, then by mouth...