Word: patiently
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...reported on the recycling of a patient's blood that has been lost in the course of an operation [March 16]. Auto-transfusion is also used in another way. A patient undergoing elective surgery is asked to contribute blood two weeks before and another batch one week before the operation. This is done, of course, provided that the blood count is adequate. The two units of blood are then stored and are used, if needed, by the patient. Today we do approximately 80% of our elective surgery making use of autotransfusion...
...also wondered whether the patient consent forms proposed by the Utah doctors fully spell out the kind of life the implant recipient should expect. The heart runs on compressed air and is electrically powered. That means the patient will be permanently tethered to air hoses and plugged into an electrical outlet, a sedentary, chair-to-bed existence...
...agency cited several problems with the proposal. First was concern over when and how doctors would decide to implant the plastic and aluminum device. The Utah team said it would try the procedure only as a last resort, when a patient's heart could not take over for the heart-lung pump used during surgery. But the FDA suggested that the doctors first consider using a less drastic mechanical aid, the so-called assist device. This piece of equipment leaves the natural heart intact but takes over the operation of one of the pumping chambers, usually the left ventricle...
...graduate of both Harvard Law School and Stanford University School of Medicine. Mills served as co-director of the Massachusetts Mental Health Center's program on psychiatry and the law. He has written many academic papers on legal aspects of mental health, particularly the patient's right to refuse treatment...
...opinion is based on scientific research, not emotions," our analyst contends. His research ("400 million years of field experiments") has yielded the following result: "a feminine woman possesses qualities which make her as different from a man psychologically as she is physically. That is, she is passive, cunning, patient, motherly, a homebody, monogamous, etc. Furthermore, a feminine woman defines herself almost exclusively by her relationship...