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...systematically. The daily ration was a piece of bread and some chicory coffee, and to keep the children from running off, "they took all of our clothes away." He lay on a bed with no sheets, no blankets, feverish with hunger. It was there he learned the art of patient plotting as he imagined all the ways he might escape and the obstacles he'd face...
...superb student, Conan Doyle went on to medical school, where he was entranced by Dr. Joseph Bell, a charismatic professor with an uncanny ability to diagnose patients even before they opened their mouths. For a time he worked as Bell's outpatient clerk and would watch, amazed, at how the location of a callus could reveal a man's profession, or how a quick look at a skin rash told Bell that the patient had once lived in Bermuda. In 1886, Conan Doyle - by now an eye doctor - outlined his first novel, A Study in Scarlet, which he described...
DEFINITION vur-choo-uhl koh-luh-nos-kuh-pee n. A minimally invasive procedure that uses X-rays and computer graphics to make 2-D and 3-D images of the inside of a patient's colon...
While donor blood alone may not be directly responsible for this added risk, those percentages had already been disturbing enough to persuade physicians to change what is known as their transfusion trigger. As a rule, they introduced donated blood as soon as the patient's hematocrit--a measure of the proportion of the blood made up of oxygen-carrying red cells--fell below the normal range of 45%-55%. Lately, however, they have begun waiting until it drops to less than 30% before transfusing...
...study makes this revised standard look all the smarter. "There is still a lot of controversy about the trigger," says Dr. Lynne Uhl, a transfusion specialist at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Boston. "But the growing data have reinforced the practice that it's O.K. to let the patient's hematocrit drop lower before transfusing...