Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...protect their jobs and budgets. In most communities, fire fighters answer 911 calls. But after treating and stabilizing victims, they often hand off the transport of the injured to a private ambulance--as in Aurora--which collects the entire bill, upwards of $1,000 for a seriously injured patient...
Dana-Farber is a federally-designated center for both cancer and AIDS research that has a partnership for patient care with Mass. General Hospital and other local hospitals...
Dana-Farber spends about $100 million in cancer research and $80 million in patient care each year, Singer said...
...drugs do not have to act in the same way and a slower mode of action might lead to a longer-lasting drug that would prevent the patient from having to take medicine every few hours...
...even tones of ironic amusement, Sweeney talks about getting her brother through spinal-tap chemotherapy and convincing her mother that people who call noodles pasta are not just showing off. Black humor prevails even in the darkest hours. When Julia joins her brother as a cancer patient, they start answering the telephone, "International House of Cancer." Just three days after Mike's death, Julia has to undergo a hysterectomy, and her doctor suggests that she might want to harvest a few eggs from her still-functioning ovaries, which could later be fertilized by a sperm donor and carried to term...