Word: patients
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...patient could be kept walking around during major surgery, instead of lying still, he would have a better chance of surviving. Reason: the commonest cause of death after operations is pulmonary embolism-blockage in an artery leading from the heart to the lungs, by a blood clot formed elsewhere in the body. One of the commonest places for such a life-threatening clot to form: the legs, because the blood "pools" there during inactivity. Two Canadian surgeons now suggest an ingenious way of keeping the patient's leg muscles and veins working about as energetically as though he were...
...less than 10% useful vision), but who could read and work if only they could get the right glasses. Previous Feinbloom inventions supplied correction for only one focal range (close work such as reading and sewing, middle range for dressing and household tasks, or distance for outdoors), and the patient had to keep switching three pairs of glasses. Each pair was expensive, so the benefits of Feinbloom's ingenuity could not reach the needy blind...
Feinbloom's new device is a three-in-one, like the executive's trifocals. Most of the field (both sides and the middle) consists of plastic with no magnification, corrected only for distortion caused by the refractive errors in the patient's eye. This is for middle distance-3 to 25 ft. At the top is a thick oval lens, apres Fresnel, with three-power magnification for distance-"infinity," which begins at 25 ft. At the bottom is a similar lens with magnification of 3 to 20 diameters for reading, sewing or benchwork. Cost of the three...
...Thank you for your tribute to Robert Service [Sept. 22]. An old "ex-Yukon" patient in a Nova Scotia hospital once told me he had lived in a tent next to Bob Service...
Health insurance does not imply a restriction on the patient's right to choose his own physician, although some control might be needed to discourage any doctors from overcharging insured patients. As a start, it might prove most practical if state insurance covered any medical expenses which exceeded a certain percentage of a patient's income. Any such percentage could be determined according to an individual's income bracket and would allow for dependents...