Word: patients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prognosis. In Brooklyn, an anxious patient, sweating out an approaching operation at Beth David Hospital, got a card entitling him to first choice of lots in the Beth David Cemetery...
...young man. At 15, he went to work as a printer's devil. After he learned his trade he traveled the countryside as a journeyman printer with no baggage but a shirt, a fighting cock and a few books. Poverty kept him rebellious, but it also made him patient, diligent, capable of drudgery. He became an editor. At 30, by borrowing money, he bought the Lynchburg Daily News. Inevitably he got into politics. But he did not begin his real career until he went to Congress...
...Cure. Treatment begins with the immediate withdrawal of alcohol. Then the doctor must get the patient's full story; he is advised that the road to cure is long and hard, requiring patience, determination and absolute honesty. He must report to the psychiatrist's office regularly and be punctual in spite of hell, high water or "previous appointments...
Herb's pirogue, built with patient skill by Uncle Emile, was made of heart cypress, and practically walked the water. Cajuns say that a pirogue is so delicately balanced that shifting a cud of tobacco from one cheek to another is enough to upset it. But skilled Cajuns cast heavy shrimp nets, go hunting, catch alligators and attend funerals in them without ever getting their feet wet. And they make them go much faster than canoes...
...available supply of streptomycin, the National Research Council has 31%. (The remainder is divided among the Army, Navy, U.S. Public Health Service, Veterans Administration.) No physician is charged for it. No patient who receives it pays for it. A full report of each case in which streptomycin is used must be sent for analysis to the Committee on Chemotherapeutics...