Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Please, please, work this time!" begged Dr. William DeVries. He had just snapped into place the polyurethane left ventricle of a new heart for his patient. The second attempt to install a ventricle worked, and Barney Clark made history by becoming the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart. The operation that gave Clark a precarious hold on life (he was to die 112 days later of multiorgan system failure) was videotaped as part of a documentary on his struggle to survive. Now a complex legal and ethical debate is going on over the question of whether...
Eager to rein in the galloping costs of American medical care, many insurance organizations have begun offering incentives to patients who choose nonhospital surgery. "Anything we can do to keep people out of the hospital is a move in the right direction," says Larry Rodriggs, a spokesman for Blue Cross of California. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Indiana last year began offering subscribers a new policy that would require outpatient care for 125 types of elective surgery, unless the patient could show that hospitalization was essential. Minnesota's Blue Cross and Blue Shield has a similar policy...
...could subsidize less profitable services, like open-heart surgery. But the American Hospital Association has taken no stand against the rival movement. Says A.H.A. President Alex McMahon: "We in the hospital industry can't object to quality surgical centers just because their procedures are less expensive to the patient...
...always, there were uplifting vignettes. As Alicia bore down on Houston during the predawn hours of Thursday, Surgeon Denton Cooley, who had finally been able to find a suitable heart donor for a 48-year-old patient, performed a successful transplant. At St. Mary's Hospital in Galveston, the wife of a Coast Guard yeoman seaman gave birth to a baby girl. She was named (what else?) Alicia...
...Friday morning last June, Chen Chui, systems manager of the hospital's medical physics computer service, discovered to his great astonishment that a Digital VAX 11/780 computer, which monitors the radiation treatment for 250 patients, had inexplicably failed during the night. Looking into the machine's log, he found that a file of billing records worth about $1,500 was missing and that passwords had been issued to five unauthorized accounts. Chui deleted the new names and took the extra precaution of replacing all the passwords for those authorized to change patient records...