Word: patients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Surgeon de Souza cleansed the nose, pared the edges, which had already begun to wither, made a circular cut in the patient's abdomen, buried the nose under four layers of tissue, then sewed up the incision. To Rio newsmen he explained that: 1) stomach tissues would provide better nourishment; 2) if the nose had become contaminated, it was easier to fight infection in the abdomen...
...plan ruthlessly trampled some of British medicine's most hallowed traditions. Voluntary and public hospitals, local points of pride for years, will be bought by the state. Private medical practice, while not abolished, will not be encouraged, and patients engaging private doctors will have to pay twice, in effect-once to the Government in taxes, once to the physician. Medical practices may no longer be sold to other doctors, but will be bought by the Government, dealt out to applicants from needy areas. Doctors who join the system will earn a civil-service salary, plus additional small fees...
Although Britain's medical journal, The Lancet, approved the plan, the well-organized British Medical Association opposed it, reasserted their conviction that doctors should not be civil servants. Patient and doctor alike, declared the B.M.A., would suffer from the loss of professional freedom. Some commentators grimly pointed to the health plans adopted by Communist Russia, Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany...
...William F. Petersen, professor of pathology at Illinois University and coauthor of The Patient and the Weather, offered a medical reason for spring fever: "In northern regions, the low ebb of vitality is reached in March and April. Blood pressure is low, blood vessels are tired. Winter has left . . . the body's store of blood proteins, vitamins and the rare minerals...
...Yank in London (Associated British; 20th Century-Fox) is probably the most pro-American picture ever made outside the U.S. A story of the G.I. Occupation of England (circa 1943-44), it is not merely patient with the Yanks who swarmed over Piccadilly Circus like lusty, thirsty locusts. It is downright cordial toward the good-natured, homesick army of boys who whistled at the girls up & down Regent Street or Shaftesbury Avenue, jammed the pubs to drink up all the spirits in sight...