Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Quincy could not have conceived a more compelling medical drama. The country's most famous pop artist dies in a prestigious big- city hospital after a rather routine gallbladder operation. The state health department investigates and finds the hospital guilty of a range of "deficiencies," in both preparing the patient for surgery and providing follow-up care. The city's chief medical examiner fails to pinpoint the cause of death and refers the case to the district attorney for possible criminal investigation. Meanwhile the hospital cries foul, complaining that the allegations are "uniformly incorrect." It acknowledges guilt of only minor...
...NEXT dream I am a Doctor. My dream opens as I happily rake in the dough from a steady stream of rich old hypochondriacs whom I have advised to visit me every day. Everything is great until a real patient walks...
...Washington, "Hinckley" is slang for PCP: the drug is so mind bending that the user can end up in St. Elizabeths, the local psychiatric hospital where John Hinckley Jr. was sent after shooting Ronald Reagan in 1981. The hospital has tried to treat its notorious inmate like any other patient. But the futility of that became apparent when St. Elizabeths, maintaining that Hinckley's condition has improved, recommended that a judge allow him to leave for a one-day unescorted visit with his parents over Easter...
...dread disease. Yet two articles published in last week's New England Journal of Medicine, while containing caveats, seemed reason for guarded optimism. Both dealt with a controversial treatment known as adoptive immunotherapy, which involves the use of a naturally produced substance, interleukin-2 (IL- 2), to bolster a patient's immune system. Both reported striking improvements in some patients with advanced cases of cancer...
...Madrazo's amazement, the effects of the operations, performed in March and October of last year, became apparent in a matter of days. In the case of one of the two patients, he noted in the Journal, "functional recovery occurred on an almost daily basis." Both men are now leading normal lives, says Madrazo, and one has resumed managing his own farm. The loss of one adrenal gland has not presented any complications. Nor is rejection a problem, because the grafted tissue is the patient's own. Encouraged, Madrazo's team has tried the procedure on eight other patients. They...