Word: patients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Subdivided Patients. Dr. Hyman admits that, through specialization, medicine has become "disintegrated, dehumanized and depersonalized, to the distress of all concerned. . . . The individual patient has become divided and subdivided until each of his afflicted organs or systems may be under scrutiny by several technicians...
...physician has lost the 'feel' of the patient's home. The patient, in turn, has been separated from his 'Doc' by receptionists, internes, residents, admitting physicians, house-officers, ward assistants, dispensary workers, specialists, subspecialists, nurses, social service workers, dietitians, etc. . . . Overall knowledge and responsibility for the human life are the province of no one practitioner...
...great majority of human ailments tend towards spontaneous recovery." A doctor must know when to apply "skillful neglect"; i.e., just tell the patient he is going to get well without treatment, or give him a harmless pill...
...prove pregnancy in its early stages, obstetricians generally use a simple urine test. In the Aschheim-Zondek test, they inject a female mouse with a urine specimen; in the Friedman test (faster and easier to read), a virgin doe rabbit gets the injection. If the patient is pregnant, hormones in the urine produce easily detectable changes in the animal's ovaries. The Friedman test, which takes two days to complete, can spot pregnancy with 98% accuracy* ten days after the first missed period...
...pregnancy advances, the amount of pitocinase in the blood increases at an exactly predictable rate. By measuring the concentration of pitocinase, Page determines the stage of pregnancy. His measurement method: a strip of uterus from an elderly female rat is suspended in a solution containing pitocin and a patient's blood sample. If the patient's blood lacks pitocinase, the pitocin-stimulated uterus contracts vigorously. But if the patient is pregnant, contractions are weaker; they vary according to the amount of pitocinase present. An abortion or death of an embryo is detectable by a drop in the amount...