Word: patiently
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...program offered to 6 million of their subscribers, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Greater New York provide patients whose own doctors recommend operations with the names of three surgeons from whom a second opinion may be sought; the one chosen by the patient receives a $50 fee. Surveying the first 1,500 patients taking advantage of the program, Blue Cross found that in 70% of the cases, the second doctor affirmed the need for the operation. In the remaining 30% of the cases, moreover, only about half the patients were told they did not need surgery...
Panorama arrived at its conclusion after examining methods used by doctors to determine "brain death." The concept holds that a person is dead when the brain has permanently stopped functioning; the heart and lungs can be kept going by machines. In Britain, doctors must figure out what caused the patient's condition-say, a blow to the head-and then do an extensive series of tests. Among them: shining light into the eyes to see if the pupils contract, spurting ice-cold water into the ears to check whether the eyes react by quivering. In the U.S., physicians also...
...American patients, none could have been declared brain dead by the criteria set up in British or American codes. Doctors must first exclude certain conditions such as drug overdoses, which may mimic death but are reversible. Indeed, there is some confusion over the American cases cited. Neurologist Fred Plum of New York Hospital, who was interviewed for the program, stresses that the patient he discussed was never officially declared brain dead...
...languages. Their public antagonism dates back to the aftermath of the 1973 Middle East war, when the two emerged as the most promising of a new generation of Israeli leaders. A career soldier for 27 years, Rabin was a former chief of staff who had made his mark with patient staff planning; he enjoyed the support of the Labor Party's broad, centrist faction. Peres, a political activist since the age of 16, was a precocious, widely traveled administrator who had been named director-general of the Defense Ministry at 29, and soon became a dominant figure...
Elston Howard Jr. said his father died of cardiac arrest in New York City's Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, where he had been a patient since November 26. The elder Howard had been in ill health for about two years...