Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...white-coated doctor is hunched over his patient's bed. He is running the curious combination of symptoms through his mind, but he cannot quite get the overall picture to add up. "I'd like to call in a colleague to recommend a diagnosis," he tells the patient. The consultant he has in mind has decades of medical experience, an infallible memory for past cases and an encyclopedic knowledge of symptoms and diseases. The consultant, whose only shortcoming is a rather cold bedside manner, is a computer...
Another Chazov patient who made a surprise May Day reappearance was Andrei Kirilenko, 75, who looked fit and vigorous as he watched the parade. The senior Politburo member, who had not been seen in public since Feb. 5, was rumored either to have been struck down by heart by heart disease or to be in disgrace. Kirilenko's appearance on the reviewing stand, two seats away from Brezhnev, revived longstanding speculation that he was next in line to succeed Brezhnev. Kirilenko's rival for the succession, Konstantin Chernenko, 70, who had occupied the pre-eminent place at Brezhnev...
...attorney for Dr. Arif Hussain, the former Harvard doctor accused of raping a woman patient in her hospital bed, questioned the emotional stability of the alleged victim while cross examining her yesterday...
...Patient: You don't argue with...
...Patient: You are afraid...