Word: patients
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Foundation. The school is marked by three new departures: 1) The curriculum will be based on the educational needs of the student nurse; instead of making her a hospital apprentice burdened with routine and drudgery. 2) The course will be reduced from three years to 28 months. 3) The patient will be considered in relation to heredity, environment, industry, housing, education and community problems in general, giving every bedside nurse a fundamental training in public health nursing...
...Showers", which opened at the Wilbur this week, is just one more of those plotless musical comedies which lay their hopes on their comedian and their dancing. This one, however, is brought out of mediocrity by Harry Delf, who tries to be funny--and succeeds. Just when the patient playgoer has begun to become bored, Harry Delf comes on the stage and laughter is restored once more. Slapstick and vaudeville humor it is, for the most part, but done in a very appealing...
...Bronx a patient with radio receivers on his ears laughed at " jokes" while doctors operated on him for hernia...
...directly into the heart, except in the case of a stillborn baby recently chronicled in TIME. The effect of the treatment is to contract the blood vessels, especially in the limbs, increase the blood pressure and stimulate the heart. It could not, of course, be used to restore a patient who had died from a long, wasting disease, but in cases of violent shock where death has ensued because of a rush of blood from the heart to the blood vessels, adrenalin is effective...
...skull of Henry A. Brown, a patient in the Beth Israel Hospital, New York, was opened under only a local anaesthetic (cocaine) by Dr. K. Winfield Ney and assisting surgeons, and a large brain tumor successfully removed. Brown was fully conscious throughout the operation, was able to answer the doctors' questions, and coöperated cheerfully. He is now convalescing and is thought to be on the way to full recovery, though his life had been despaired of before the operation. His condition was such that he probably could not have survived such an operation under a general anaesthetic...