Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bhopal, meanwhile, the scene at Hamidia Hospital remained tense. When Ashok Bhaba, a local politician, accused two senior doctors of discharging a patient prematurely, a scuffle broke out, and 900 young doctors went on a 21-hour strike in support of their two superiors. At almost the same time, Mother Teresa visited the hospital, and the city, to bring spiritual comfort. As news of the factory's resumption began to spread, even patients who could hardly walk checked out of the hospital and joined the mass exodus. Wards that had been overflowing just one week earlier were left almost...
...says Sir Richard Attenborough, 61, appraising his cast for the film version of A Chorus Line, currently filming-where else?-on Broadway. The director does not make the claim lightly. He interviewed 3,000 applicants before choosing the final lineup. But then, Sir Dickie is accustomed to being patient. He has wanted to do another musical ever since 1969, when he mixed song and satire in his first film, Oh! What a Lovely War, but got sidetracked by the making of Gandhi. Looking back, Attenborough claims that filming the epic of the Mahatma was simplicity itself compared with telling...
...stroke occurred just one day after the world's most famous heart patient took a phone call from President Reagan, who rang up to wish him well. Seizing his chance, Schroeder told the President, "I've got a Social Security problem." Reagan asked Schroeder to repeat himself. "O.K.," said the patient. "I filed March of 1984 for Social Security, and I'm just getting a runaround. I'm not getting anything at all." Promised the President: "I'll get on it right away." Two Social Security officials appeared at Schroeder's bedside the next...
...England, a nurse at an undisclosed hospital became ill after pricking herself with a syringe containing blood drawn from an AIDS patient. For more than 20 days she suffered from the fiulike symptoms and fever that often characterize the early stage of the lethal disease. Though she appears to have recovered, her blood shows evidence of infection with the AIDS-related virus...
...British incident is more worrisome and appears to be the first documented case of transmission from patient to medical worker. However, this case has several unusual features. According to the journal Lancet, it was not an ordinary needle-prick injury since it may have involved the actual injection of infected blood. Also, the nurse's patient apparently had contracted AIDS in Africa, where the virus seems to have different characteristics from its American cousins and appears to be spread primarily by heterosexual contact...