Word: patients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shelby, N.C. movie theater, Veteran Arbuth Bumgarner, 26, who was bombed while a patient in a Normandy hospital, suddenly went berserk, stabbed his wife and then himself with his pocketknife. The movie "drove him nuts," he explained. It showed the bombing of a Normandy hospital...
...been gored in the belly by a Zebu bull. Down the corridor at a dogtrot came Dr. James Fanstone. He lifted the banana leaf that protected the man's wound against flies. "Get this fellow into surgery," he said. An hour later, Dr. Jim reported that the patient was doing well. What had he done about the man's innards? "Oh, I just cleaned them off and shoved them back," he said, peeling off his rubber gloves. Then he was off to look after another case...
...different from a year ago, when Doug Abbott, passing out tax-reduction gifts (TIME, May 12, 1947), looked like Santa Claus. Since then the price situation had worsened. So had the international outlook. Doug Abbott had toughened with the times. He was no longer a patient listener. Many a time in budget conferences he cut short advisers with a brusque yes or no and hurried to the next item. Even with colleagues of Cabinet rank he had lost the habit of turning aside importunities with easy banter...
...stills. A fluoroscope lets them watch the internal organs in action. But there are two difficulties: a doctor's eyes function poorly in the dim light needed to make the fluoroscopic image visible; the X-ray intensities now used can't be stepped up without endangering the patient. Last week Westinghouse Physicist John Wo Coltman, 32, who has been inventing gadgets since he was a boy, thought he had the answer: an X-ray intensifier, to give physicians a look as much as 500 times clearer than with ordinary fluoroscopes...
...intensifier, which Coltman calls a "telescope," works by a triple play, from X rays to light rays to electrons and back to light again; it amplifies the X rays only after they have passed through the body, so danger to the patient is not increased. A pilot model has worked in the laboratory; a full-scale apparatus is now being built. Most likely uses: studying the heart's action, detecting early cancer and tuberculosis...