Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ultimate test of Duke's affiliations and joint ventures is how patients in the communities it moves into feel about the care they receive. Angela Baldwin says Lincoln Community did a good job on Tyrece, and she plans to come back. That's good news for Duke, because even when hospitals buy each other up in big-dollar deals, medical practices are built one patient at a time...
...work edited by Barrett Seaman, our special-projects editor. Nancy Gibbs, the senior editor who conceived the project, staked out the infant intensive-care unit. Adam Cohen, a staff writer, checked out Duke's marketing strategy. Senior writer David Van Biema's beeper alerted him whenever a patient was feared to be dying. Deputy photo editor Rick Boeth marshaled the photographers chronicling the action. Veteran science correspondent Dick Thompson and senior reporter Alice Park "knew what the doctors were talking about, which made them translators for the rest of us," says Seaman...
...just shown that he's riddled with cancer and has perhaps four months to live. When he wakes, they will tell him. Baker asks if he can help. Not just now, the family says gently. Later he will write neatly in the chaplain's log that tomorrow "family and patient may need to verbalize this matter...
...stream of questions from Magnus Ohman, the senior cardiologist, who is leading the group this morning: Which famous painter suffered from digoxin poisoning? (Van Gogh.) How does a chest X ray look when a breast implant leaks? (Trick question: it looks the same.) Which episode of ER fits the patient in 7206? The dazed residents protest that they have no time for television. "You've got to watch ER," Ohman lectures. "Patients come in and ask you about...
...right answer eventually emerges from their Socratic discourse: if the patient starts to have problems, Esmolol can be stopped and, within minutes, so will its chemical effect. Cheaper drugs can't be turned off so quickly. "It will cost more, but that's O.K.," says Gary Dunham, the pharmacologist who is sharing rounds with Ohman. If the woman gets in trouble with one of the cheaper drugs, he says, her health-care costs will soar. Dunham lectures again in the language of cost-based pharmacotherapy: "It's the most effective drug at the least societal cost...