Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...part, taking at face value Astrov's assertion that he can no longer feel anything. Astrov feels things very deeply--his preoccupation with animals and the forests reveals a profound humanitarian urge that has been displaced after losing faith in mankind. He blames himself for killing a patient under chloroform because he no longer wants to heal, and his only hope is that when "we are sleeping in our coffins we might be visited by dreams, perhaps even pleasant ones...
Finally, a biopsy technique developed in 1972 is helping doctors tell when a patient's immunological defense system is attempting to reject the transplant. Drugs used to suppress rejection also limit the body's ability to ward off infection. The biopsy technique allows drugs to be used with more precision, thus tempering their undesired effect...
...transplant, nearly always paid by private health plans or public funds, ranges from $30,000 to $190,000; postoperative ambulatory care costs $2,500 a year. The trustees of Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital this year voted against starting a transplant program partly because they reckoned that each patient would consume as much of the hospital's resources as eight routine open-heart operations...
...David Gershuni's everyday kind of patient. But the orthopedic surgeon, working early one morning in a large barn at the San Diego Wild Animal Park, was unfazed by his jumbo task: to place a cast around the fractured leg of a twelve-year-old African elephant named Mandavu...
Unlike McGinnis, best known for his classic, The Selling of the President 1968, McPhee is not a journalist. He is rather an impeccable craftsman, a quiet, careful worker whose pieces are intricate productions of exemplary quality. He is patient, willing to wait until surfaces dissolve and deeper meanings emerge. McPhee never really raises his perfectly modulated voice...