Word: patients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Never Say Die. In East London, Union of South Africa, a heart patient, who had been ordered to avoid exertion or excitement, in one day 1) battered down a door and interrupted a suicide, 2) chased and caught a speeding driver, 3) acted as midwife in a sudden emergency, 4) survived...
Last week the patient did as well as could be expected. The preoperative prayers were said with muted strings; the ether was given with dissonance; the incision and sewing up came with a clatter of busy brass and woodwinds. The non-medical found Composer Parris' music not quite surgically clean: it had echoes of everything from Grieg to Gershwin. But nobody denied that it was good...
...year-old kidneys, an 80-year-old liver, and try to live the life of a 30-year-old. A specialist should find out just where old age has got in its worst licks. The examination should include a search for damaged organs, and a psychological study of the patient's worries and hopes. Then the doctor should recommend "antiaging" devices. For instance, diet: at 60 most men need more protein, calcium, iron than men of 30, but fewer fats and carbohydrates...
...guilty. Last week Judge Patrick T. Stone sentenced them each to three years in prison and fined them $7,000 and costs. Said the judge to the old brothers: "You have been engaged in a widescale, sordid, evil and vicious enterprise without the slightest regard or consideration for the patient that consulted you . . . You were cold, vicious and heartless in your quest for wealth...
...A.M.A. insists that all medical prepayment plans should be controlled by medical men (i.e., medical associations), to preserve the traditional patient-doctor relationship (including, say critics, the right of well-established physicians to charge as much as their consciences allow...