Word: patients
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Perhaps he is patient and resigned. If so, he snatches his hat and rushes off to class. The happy moment is gone; but then, "Life itself is inexorable," he murmurs to himself. "A man must learn to live by the rufes...
...instead of being patient he may have what psychologists call a "superiority complex." His schedule says he is due in class. The bell says, "Come!" -- "Damn schedule and bell and the whole infernal family of calendars and clocks!" And he cuts his class...
...harlots, cripples scabrous with loathsome diseases, twitching paralytics, and mahogany-faced bushmen who had heard of Vespaciano and had come down from the hills. To them he talked of what had been revealed to him; some he healed, using the same formula with which he had raised his first patient, and it came to the ears of certain authorities that this formula was "Take up thy bed and walk." A few of Vespaciano's apostles were taken, questioned, and so the thing came out. They thought he was the Christ...
...fashioned doctor knew that his horse was able to take care of himself. The modern doctor in a city is so busy thinking about and looking after the oil, gasoline, and tire problems of his automobile that he barely has time for a hasty examination of his patient...
...bedside of one Mae Wahl, an anemic patient at the Greenpoint Hospital, L. I., a husky blood-seller was conducted, introduced, and told to roll up his sleeve. Through a hollow needle, a doctor then connected a tube with a vein in his arm. The tube led up to a barrel-shaped cylinder about an inch high from which on the other side a similar tube stretched to prick the chilly flesh of poor Mae Wahl. The doctor turned a switch and a plunger began to work in the cylinder. On the down stroke it sucked blood...