Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long-term prognosis. Concedes Ted Ingersoll, executive vice president of Columbia Savings & Loan Association (assets: $1.4 billion) in Denver: "No matter how bright and innovative we are, we're at the mercy of interest rates. If they turn against us, we're in trouble again." The patient may now be off the critical list, in other words, but he is not yet Out of danger...
...diagnose accurately, you can treat appropriately," he continues, explaining the "multiple sleep latency" test. During the course of one weekend a month, a patient is given the opportunity to sleep five times in 10 hours, and the sleep latency--time between going to bed and falling asleep--is measured...
This is the case with tonight's patient After the all-night session, the results of the monitors will confirm the diagnosis of a severe obstruction in his throat, and the need for a tracheotomy. In other words, the patient will have a permanent incision made in his throat, which will enable him to sleep uninterrupted by bypassing the block. "Laxity of the soft tissues in the throat and palate," according to Stakes, makes the operation necessary...
Meanwhile, the man is less restless than the average patient But suddenly, at 2.03 a.m. he putts off his chin monitor and tugs on his nasal airflow indicators McMahon swings into action...
Stakes leaves minutes later satisfied that she has it under control. Often say McMahon the doctor will stay especially if there is a patient who might encounter some sort of difficulty during the night and grab sleep when he can Stakes serves as a neurologist as well as an internist in day light and on nights when the lab is in service he says "I fit sleep in someplace...