Word: patients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cutting prescribes an unusually juicy 960-calorie diet, full of vitamins. A patient who fails to lose (goal is two pounds a week) has cheated, "because almost any adult, no matter how small or how inactive, requires at least 1,500 calories daily. ... A diet restricted to 1,000 calories will make him lose weight...
...Senate's patient, plodding majority leader, Alben Barkley, stepped out of character as a loyal New Dealer, joined Missouri's Harry Truman in a furious attack on the Government's record in helping small business get war contracts. Said Alben Barkley: "I have held my tongue in my cheek as long as I am going to hold it there about this situation...
...work," says Dr. Hyser, "should be planned for the lifetime of the patient and not regarded as a patching job done merely in order to get him into military service." His idea is no sudden inspiration. For ten years he has worked on plans to get dentistry to everybody. Under present conditions only 20% of U.S. citizens ever see a dentist and only 5% can be classed as having excellent dental care. Dr. Hyser says that his plan "for over a year has been passed around in Washington, been pronounced pertinent and practicable by the authorities-and left...
...touch with each other afterwards. Gravely ill last week in Hollywood, his widow announced that she had not only given up trying but had her doubts about the existence of a hereafter. She had held seances every year for ten years, unsuccessfully. "Ten years," observed patient Mrs. Houdini last week, "is long enough to wait...
...Warren Cooksey, technical supervisor of Detroit's blood bank, thought the red blood cells should be saved if possible-they are the material needed in a large proportion of hospital transfusions (e.g., anemia), are ordinarily given to patients in whole blood purchased from professional donors at $25 a pint. Dr. Cooksey found that, mixed with a simple salt solution, red cells will keep in good condition for a little over a week, provided processing takes place within an hour of bloodletting. At his suggestion, the blood bank will soon send Detroit hospitals 800 pints of red blood cells...