Word: patients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Secretary General Dennis A. FitzGerald: ". . . The world is eating a little better this winter than last [but] the improvement is small. . . . In the Lower Danube Basin and the adjacent parts of the U.S.S.R. food conditions range from no better to much worse. In India and the Far East . . . the patient is by no means out of danger...
Patel himself had been less patient than Prakasam. He had struck at Communist publicists elsewhere in India without waiting for open revolt (TIME, Jan. 27). However, many Red leaders, including Party Boss Puran Chandra Joshi, were still at large, and the Communists were still a menacing factor in the political life of India. Before the war their influence had been negligible...
...patient, a pregnant, 29-year-old Negro woman, had complained for months of severe pains in her abdomen. One day last week, as she approached full term, the pains got worse. In the osteopathic unit of Los Angeles County General Hospital, doctors X-rayed her, found to their astonishment that the uterus was only slightly enlarged. The baby was not there; it was thrashing about in the abdomen, its head under the liver and the rest of its body lodged against the stomach and intestines...
...abdominal pregnancy, especially one that proceeds to full term, is extremely rare, and almost invariably fatal to the baby.* As the doctors wheeled the patient into the hospital's largest amphitheater to operate, word spread quickly; surgeons jammed in to watch the operation, set up a camera to record it in color movies...
...Edward Abbott, assisted by Dr. Charles Mount, made a six-inch midline incision in the abdomen. The patient bled profusely (she got almost eight pints of blood in transfusions). The doctors cut the fetal sac, seized the infant, pulled out a wailing baby girl. Weight: 6 lbs. 6 oz. Condition of mother & daughter at week's end: excellent...