Word: patients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week the State Department made public in a White Paper a long list of the many and patient protests it had sent Japan. And it promised the American people : "The American Government will hold personally and officially responsible all officers of the Japanese Government who have participated [in these crimes], and with the inevitable and inexorable conclusion of the war will visit upon such Japanese officers the punishment they deserve for their uncivilized and inhuman acts...
...advantages of loud, clear medical advice were learned last week by Dr. Frederick William Haskell McKee of Manhattan's Park Ave. He strapped $2,300-worth of radium in three narrow, inch-long tubes to a woman patient's leg (to treat a small cancer) and told her to go to his office rest room. She misunderstood him and went to the hairdressers' instead...
...frantic doctor tried to find her, partly to save his precious radium but mostly to prevent the lady from getting radium burns. Presently the patient phoned to report that her little bandage had "come loose" (she had not been overexposed). It had disappeared into the hairdresser's plumbing, 19 floors up in a Madison Avenue skyscraper...
These treatments can be given only by a hardy doctor with plenty of moral courage of his own. Every case of war neurosis presents a picture of heart-rending insecurity - the patient is convinced that the whole world is hostile and that nothing can make it right again. "He sobs, weeps violently, throws himself into the psychiatrist's arms as he tells how he was deserted by every semblance of a protective, supporting or kindly figure. Officers, other soldiers, friends and buddies all suddenly become impotent in the face of the ever-present enemy fire and activity...
...been used much on children, because their tissue resistance is naturally high. But it helps a scarlet fever case if given before the patient has been ill three days. Professor Bogomoletz thinks it might be used to stimulate growth in underdeveloped children...