Word: patients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mistress!' Rodion called out, walking after her. 'Mistress, wait a bit. I want to tell you something. . . . Live along here, be patient, and everything will work out all right. Our people are good, peaceful. . . . Don't pay any attention to Kozov or to the Lychkovs, and don't pay any attention to Volodka, he is just a fool; he listens to whoever speaks first. The rest of them are all right. They have good hearts and they have good consciences, but they have no tongues. Wait a couple of years and you can have the school...
...Lester Samuels, chief surgeon of a Veterans Administration hospital in Louisiana, had flown to New York City (by special permission of President Truman, to whom the patient had appealed) to perform this emergency operation. (He had halted an attack, three years ago, by cutting her left phrenic nerve.) The cutting stops uncontrollable hiccups by disconnecting the diaphragm from nervous impulses that cause its convulsions...
...Raise your leg, Jim," urged Dr. George Deaver, medical chief of the institute. A thin leg rose unsteadily, fell back. "Do you want to walk, Jim?" Dr. Deaver asked gently. The patient murmured: "I want to get back to work...
...faced the patient. "Get up and walk...
...girl. "Caramba" he muttered, "Me va a injector la hueral" The girl smiled politely, swiftly completed her job, then turned to a sobbing little Indian boy. "No tengas miedo" she promised. Then she pulled down his pants, gave him an injection in the backside and hurried on to another patient...