Word: patients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only hospitals in New York City where Negro doctors could practice were the free public hospitals, where all patients were ward patients. There was, in short, no hospital where a Negro doctor could send a private patient and continue to treat him. For sick Negroes, going to the hospital meant going to a ward, accepting any doctor the hospital provided. Moreover, the banning of Negro doctors from the great voluntary teaching hospitals seriously cut a Negro's chances of getting good training. At least part of Harlem's high mortality rate (36% above the rest of the city...
...Terrifying World." A patient, she thinks, should get out of the hospital as soon as possible, even though it means entering a "new and terrifying world." She also feels that he should get no coddling, should learn to do things for himself, even when it seems harsh to make him do them. The best kind of help, she found, is from someone similarly injured. Betsey Barton made this discovery at Manhattan's unique Institute for the Crippled and Disabled.* There she found an organization with many disabled people on its staff, using many kinds of special training methods...
...Dewey for ten weeks, crossed the Cascade Mountains on a 94-speech, 9,250-mile tour, and headed south. He soothed Tacoma, Wash. Republicans who had been miffed because Dewey had bypassed their town. After Bricker spoke, the county chairman, 260-lb. Dr. Hinton D. Jonez, beamed: "The patient's wounds have been sewed and the sheets pulled up. The Republicans of this county are resting easily." Bricker gobbled a Delicious Yakima apple, steered a Puget Sound ferry, pitched the opening ball in Wenatchee for a major-league barnstormers' game (see cut), admired the scenery continuously, shook hands...
...honor. The people of New York had not forgotten him. From mid-afternoon until 2 a.m. the four blocks of sidewalk around the cathedral were jammed with a solid mass of people, waiting to enter. A drizzling rain fell toward evening, gleaming wetly on hundreds of umbrellas, but the patient, silent crowds shuffled on-soldiers, old women, Negroes, bobby-sox girls, prominent citizens. When the doors were finally closed, 200,000 men & women, of every faith and from every station of life, had passed the bronze casket...
...successful management of this case, Nature endorses the principles at present advocated for the immediate surgical treatment of such an injury." All that remained to be done was to separate gut and abdominal wall, stitch up the gut, clean and dress the wound. In three weeks, the patient went home and, six months later, was perfectly healthy...