Word: patiently
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...coronary bypass is unquestionably the most frequently performed piece of radical major surgery in the U.S. Some 25,000 times a year, doctors open the chest of a heart-disease victim to implant a piece of one of the patient's own veins or arteries to carry blood around an obstruction in the coronary artery that feeds the heart muscle. But is the bypass operation always necessary? Not according to Dr. Henry Russek, a professor of cardiology at New York Medical College. At a conference on cardiology at the Texas Heart Institute in Houston last week, Russek claimed that...
Changing Life-Style. What bothers Russek the most, however, is the dearth of medical treatment preceding a decision to operate. Russek reviewed the medical treatment that had been given to 200 patients admitted to hospitals for surgery to correct uncontrollable angina. Nearly half had been treated with nothing other than nitroglycerin, a drug used to dilate or expand the arteries. In most of these cases, the drug had been used only to help abort an attack of angina-not to modify the conditions that led to the pain. On the other hand there had been insufficient effort to deal with...
...Praise Famous Men is one of only a few included in the book. A pity. Critic Lincoln Kirstein was nearly right when he said that in Evans' photographs, "even the inanimate things, bureau drawers, pots, tires, bricks, signs, seem to be wait ing in their own patient dignity, posing for their picture." The last word on all these photographs, however, perhaps should go to James Agee, Evans' admir ing partner in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Describing his love and admiration for the poor sharecroppers whom he and Evans celebrated with "the motionless camera and the print...
...pulls a string of brightly colored handkerchiefs out of an apparently empty fist, or makes his thumb disappear. Then, having coaxed a child into smiling, Brodeur rewards him; he whips red and black felt-tipped marking pens out of a pocket and draws a tiny ladybug on the patient's forearm...
Social Occasion. If test results indicate that a patient needs treatment, he is immediately referred to his own physician. Bansmer believes that the monthly examinations will enable doctors to detect early signs of illness in patients who frequently do not get regular checkups. In addition, many members of Prosser's eldercare program look forward to the monthly hospital outings as social occasions that give them a chance to see friends...