Word: patients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chungking estimates that in the provinces occupied by Japan 30 million Chinese became opium, heroin, morphine or hashish addicts. Wherever the enemy advanced, he deliberately undid the patient, progressive work of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Opium Suppression Commission. This agency, aided by the indefatigable New Life Movement, had gone far toward stamping out the cultivation, sale and use of narcotics...
Doctors and nurses have written on such subjects as incurable patients, mechanical restraint, patients who are not fit to be seen. Attendants have described how to be friendly but not overly liked by patients, what to do in case of an escape, what to do about feeding, sanitation, the use of force. An ex-inmate contributed "A Patient's-Eye View of Nurses and Attendants...
...neck had been broken in an auto accident when he was on his way to shoot pheasants. He fought with the same tenacity with which he had fought his enemies. He was mending so well that medics took off the elaborate traction apparatus and put their 60-year-old patient in a plaster cast. There was talk of flying him home. Then a respiratory infection set in. Last week-twelve days after his accident-George Patton died in his sleep...
...eight years the students and their professors, who trekked from Peiping. Tientsin and other northern cities, had lived a lean and patient life in Kunming. When V-J day brought not peace but internal strife, they stirred restlessly...
...workers idle because of strikes, such sophisticated detachment seemed almost naive. But U.S. clothing manufacturers, who last week faced the hard bargainers of Sidney Hillman's wise old union of needleworkers, saw nothing starry-eyed in the union's demands. Reason: through years of patient dickering, smart Sidney Hillman has in many respects become co-manager of all the shops where his union supplies the labor; the union has sometimes bailed management out of its difficulties...