Word: patients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mental state was one of depression which varied with the degree of edema. This was particularly noticeable in children. . . . The adult patient . . . would repeat the same request over and over . . . with tears dripping from the cheeks. Cerebration was slow and the extraction of a history very tedious...
Around besieged Hengyang the Jap lay fat and well-fed. Toward him plodded the patient, pauper soldiers of China. TIME Correspondent Theodore H. White went on one such expedition that tried to reach Hengyang's defenders, reported it in this dispatch...
...watched for a while as the wounded were brought up the gangway from the amphibious ducks which had evacuated them from shore. The first patient, a soldier, had been wounded in the back and arm by mortar fragments. Dr. Beck examined his tag and pried under his bandages. "Put him in Surgical One Lower," said the doctor. The bearers lifted him gingerly and walked up the stairway...
...Patient, politically wise Minister Ilsley listened sympathetically for almost six hours. Then he raised members' hopes by offering to reconsider the problem, dashed them as quickly by adding: "My present belief is that [a change] should not be made for the present members...
...injured workman is told by a "steerer" (usually a lawyer or insurance man) which doctor to go to; the doctor then pads his fees to double the normal amount (or, more often, by prolonging treatment unnecessarily) and sends a kickback to the steerer. If the doctor refers the patient to a specialist or an X-ray laboratory, he gets a second piece of dirty money when the specialist or laboratory pads fees in turn and kicks some back...