Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nevertheless, the nuclear industry is not well. Like a patient with a chronic disease, it has been ailing for more than a decade. It has been suffering seriously for nearly five years, ever since a 1979 accident turned the nuclear plant at Three Mile Island, Pa., into a focal point for public fears and protests. Now a series of reversals has worsened nuclear power's condition still further...
Wacker said that in the last week, six students exhibiting influenza symptoms were admitted to Stillman Infirmary, and "a lot more" were treated in the out-patient clinic...
...identity of the donor has not been revealed but the heart was apparently taken from a patient at St. Vincent's Hospital in Worcester...
...first case approved by the state was a patient at Tufts Medical Center, who died before a donor could be found...
...situation does, however, deserve close consideration, for there may be another patient, unlike Bouvia, who is dependent on the hospital's care and cannot simply check herself out. That patient may find herself in the same position, but totally powerless a situation that makes the phrase "self- determination" seem irrelevant...