Word: patients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...telephone messages "with fidelity and without unreasonable delay" is a misdemeanor, punishable by a $500 fine, a year in jail, or both. Carl Daubendiek, father of six, was indicted, tried and found guilty. (A county poor overseer had testified she was held up in getting an ambulance for a patient, who later died.) This week, while a district judge pondered his sentence, Carl Daubendiek was out on bail. Jefferson telephone operators were eschewing editorial observations and confining themselves strictly to asking for the number, please...
Under National Research Council supervision, several doctors are now making small-scale penicillin trials, but their work is a military secret. No secret is the drug's use on Cocoanut Grove fire casualties (TIME, Dec. 7) at Massachusetts General Hospital. Each patient got sulfadiazine to prevent streptococcus infection on burned surfaces and then, if he still had a temperature six days later, intramuscular injections of 5,000 units of penicillin every four hours to prevent staphylococcus infection. It is notable that no patient so treated died of staphylococcus blood poisoning...
...anesthetic cone, Lipes used a tea strainer through which the patient breathed ether; for the incision, a broken-handled scalpel from the ship's medicine chest; for antiseptic, alcohol drained from torpedoes; for muscle retractors (to hold the incision open), bent tablespoons. Oversize rubber gloves encumbered Lipes. After cutting through layers of muscle, he took 20 minutes to find the appendix. "I think I've got it," Lipes finally whispered. "It's curled around the blind gut. . . . More flashlights, another battle lantern...
Ether fumes eddied through the crowded wardroom. The patient grimaced. "More ether," said Lipes. Two hours and a half after the operation started, Lipes took the last catgut stitch. At that moment the ether gave...
Last week Pharmacist's Mate Lipes was on furlough visiting his wife in Upper Darby, Pa. Of his first surgical patient he said modestly: "He had more nerve than...