Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...through the barrier of silence that all too often shrouds terminal illness. Before the end, she explains, "I want to do something that matters." So she approached the incoming Daily News managing editor, Gregory Favre, with the novel idea of writing a column about cancer-and death-from a patient's point of view. He promptly accepted the suggestion. Says he: "She is a talented writer with great sensitivity. There is a need for this type of thing." Readers apparently agree. Each of the ten columns that has appeared so far has brought a heavy volume of mail...
...could have stopped breathing any time." Indeed, before Mirando left the operating room again, he had been out for more than ten hours. Says MacKay, who has been granted immunity from prosecution for his cooperation with investigators: "After it was over, I never wanted to touch a patient again...
...because some surgeons refuse to take the trouble to become familiar with new equipment or techniques. He says that his investigators have information implicating a dozen other salesmen in illegal surgery, including one case in which the factory representative had to remove a drill that became stuck in a patient's skull during brain surgery. Adds Lifflander: "What we found is that the level of incompetence among surgeons is a lot greater than anyone imagined...
...regulations also require financial aid officers to discuss the loan payment schedule with each loan recipient. the Sidney Farber Cancer Institute, said yesterday he has been studying the use of marijuana to control the side effects of chemotherapy since 1971, when a patient told him that smoking the drug before chemotherapy treatments eliminated the usual nausea...
...Only to say that Daniel Lavette is always in the right place at the right time-getting into shipping for World War I and out of it before the armistice gluts the seas with empty freighters; that he hedges his private happiness by keeping a wise, patient Oriental mistress in reserve; and that he is neither too proud nor too dissipated to return to his nets when the Depression shatters his empire...