Word: patients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lawrence was not too worried about that. The patient seemed to be feeling a little better already: the fall orders were coming in, and one big mill had started a double shift two days a week...
...other hormones (progesterone derivatives), which might interfere with the test, by mixing in chloroform and sodium hydroxide. The fluid containing estrone rises to the top. This fluid is put in two other test tubes and a different chemical reagent added to each, for a double check. If the patient is pregnant, one reagent turns the solution dark brown; the other makes it reddish purple.* With both reagents, it becomes amber if she is not pregnant...
These facts come easily to my mind only because I am that patient called Smith. May God forbid the continued absence of Bacchus and Morpheus at the "House of Little Gray Slippers." Hugh M. Smith...
...spent a week in Stillman--Ward Three, Bed Nine. Two days after my arrival, I noticed that they had put a new patient in Bed Ten. My new neighbor was a nice fellow--or at least he never had the opportunity to prove himself otherwise, because he was the monster at rest. He passed twenty-two of his first twenty-four Stillman hours in a state of complete oblivion...
...Patients are free to use the plan or not as they choose. They can pick their own doctor. Doctors are free to accept or reject a patient, and they are able to determine the kind and extent of treatment they will use. Doctors do not become government employees nor are patients compelled to go to any doctor they do not wish to. Administration will be as decentralized as possible with local groups composed of lay and medical personnel taking care of the bulk of it. Patient-doctor relationships will be unaltered. The major change from the private medical system will...