Word: patients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...letting the world go to hell." But most Congressmen, sobered by the testimony, were no longer eager to cast a vote for the revision plan. Marshall and Austin, though deploring the tactics, were far from decrying the spirit. They asked for a resolution supporting the U.S.'s patient efforts to shore up the structure of U.N. "from within" through the Little Assembly, and restriction of the veto in peaceful settlements...
...Peter Kaadt (now aged 74 and 76 respectively). Insulin, said the Brothers Kaadt, was oldfashioned. So were diabetic diets. The essential thing, they said, was to take three tablespoons a day of the Kaadts' own diabetes remedy. Then insulin could be reduced (or eliminated entirely), and the patient could eat anything his heart desired...
Doctors were aghast at an eight-degree jump last night as the patient sat with a thermometer between blanched lips and a Daily Record (Payoff Edition) clutched in hand...
...When the patients were hitched up to the electrocardiograph, the doctors deliberately stirred up their emotions. Examples: one patient developed a noticeable arrhythmia (irregular beating) when the doctor mentioned his in-laws; a woman patient's heart began skipping when the doctors referred to her illegitimate child; the same sort of extrasystoles (premature contractions of the heart) showed up on the electrocardiograph when they asked a 61-year-old spinster why she had never married...
...Harmless" Civilians? If the war is just, does it matter what means are used to win it? Yes, says the commission: "A surgeon, driven to amputate a foot to save a patient's life, would be blameworthy if he unnecessarily cut off the whole leg." In the same way, a belligerent should seek to damage his enemy as lightly as possible and "shun all acts . . . calculated to breed hatred...