Word: patiently
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White was to have received the James B. Herrick award, named for the Chicago physician (1861-1954) who in 1912 first accurately described a coronary-artery shutdown in a living patient and in effect added the term coronary thrombosis to the language. Previously, doctors had assumed that no one could survive a heart attack. They had viewed the post-mortem finding of a coronary thrombosis merely as an interesting item of pathology, and no particular significance was attached to Herrick's report, which he admitted "fell like a dud." But it was eventually to have great impact on Paul...
...first time there has been a reasonable link, but it could be a coincidence," Ory said. "If I were a practicing physician and a patient asked me if she should stop taking the pill, I would...
Other philosophical questions are highlighted by the clinic situation. The patient's right to know what is happening to him becomes more important where future history-taking by different doctors may depend on what the patient knows about what has been done in the past. Both Blevins and Eppinger agreed strongly that the patient has every right to know about his disease and his treatment...
...here for the patient, not the other way around," Blevins said. Eppinger went even further. "I give them the information without being asked for it. Then I ask them to repeat it back. When they're in here, they are frightened and anxious and in their minds there is always a possibility of their having a life-threatening disease," he said. And Eppinger, with his medical school background, firmly believes that knowledge can combat that anxiety...
Both equally strongly, however, denied the patient's right to access to his or her own medical records, saying that it would close an avenue of communication among doctors themselves...