Word: patients
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...land redistribution program, once led the campaign for a Communist candidate for Congress, later wrote a Marxist Geography of Cuba that is now a standard textbook in Cuban schools. Another force is Celia Sánchez,* Castro's onetime Girl Friday in the hills, who offers a patient ear and a radicalism as woolly as Castro's own. Her apartment, where she keeps a freshly laundered shirt for him and a maid to prepare his favorite fish-and-rice breakfast, is one of Castro's favorite ports of call in his hectic junketing about Havana...
...remove the poisons, they wheeled a donor into the treatment room. The donor: a 130-lb. ewe, heavily draped to conceal its identity. From a neck artery and vein the doctors hooked up the ewe to another cellophane tube. This was wrapped around the tube through which the patient's blood circulated, and the two rested in a plasma solution to serve as an intermediary in the exchange...
...Sicilian doctors' reasoning: a chemical cleansing bath is better than none, but it lacks so many of the factors usually found in blood that the patient loses some substances that are essential to life. Cellophane tubes of the type used in the artificial kidney will stop big protein molecules, so there should be no danger of a fatal antibody reaction. But they allow the blood's complex chemicals to pass freely if they are fully dissolved. So the protein-free part of the woman's poisoned plasma passed through both tube walls and into the sheep...
...credited with helping to save the woman's life. (The sheep also recovered after a brief feverish illness.) Last week Dr. Pavone-Macaluso said that he wanted to try the technique again, but with a bigger donor animal-and hence a larger blood volume-to clear the patient's blood faster. In fact, he said, if he could figure out a way to get it into the operating room, he would like to use an elephant...
...Becoming a good teacher," said a veteran New York City public-school teacher, "has more in common with the process of becoming a good boxer or a combat soldier [than with medicine]. You do not have a subdued and cooperative patient; you have a mixed bag of restless unknown quantities in one room, no two of whom will react the same way. You get your brains knocked out a few times, and you get blown up several times. If you are a born teacher and not one fabricated by the professors of pedagogy, you become a first-class veteran, able...