Word: patients
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...injections of Government spending (dope) by Uncle Sam (the doctor) result in strengthening public confidence and in adding push to the private economy (the patient), then the treatment will be proper. Of course, the patient ought to get well enough to go off dope and pay the doctor's bill...
...streptomycin. They show descending orders of resistance to the tetracyclines (Aureomycin, Terramycin, Achromycin) and chloramphenicol (Chloromycetin). Strains have emerged that show varying resistance to still newer antibiotics. Strangely, nobody knows exactly how severe the problem is because most deaths caused by staph are not so listed. If a patient admitted for heart surgery dies of a staph infection, his death is attributed to the original heart trouble. Example: in Seattle and surrounding King County, only four deaths (out of 7,837) in 1956 were listed as caused by staph. But Dr. Reimert T. Ravenholt estimates in the American Journal...
...France. One reader deeply moved by the book was Dr. Xavier Leclainche, boss of public assistance for Paris. He called in Author Vernhes for a talk, issued swift orders. At his seven children's hospitals, parents may henceforth stay round the clock at the bedside of any patient near death. The youngsters may keep such items as lockets and crosses, and their own clothes. Parents may be present before and after all operations, and there will be waiting rooms. Dr. Leclainche will even try a hostess service, modeled on the job of an airplane stewardess, to ease the ordeal...
...little more than two weeks, Patient Schulte's condition improved and the clotting appeared checked. Since then he has had infrequent, mild recurrences, has led an active life. From the presidency of Park & Tilford, Arthur Schulte moved to investment banking in Wall Street. Last week, in gratitude for heparin's help, ex-Patient Schulte footed the bills for a Manhattan conference staged by the New York Heart Association on progress in anticoagulant drugs...
From Rotten Clover. Heparin has had a distinguished history since Schulte's early case, has proved invaluable in a variety of conditions where clotting is a danger, notably after a patient has already had a heart attack or stroke from a thrombus (clot). Heparin's advantage over most rival anticlotting drugs: it acts immediately. Its disadvantages: it is expensive and must be injected under the skin or infused into a vein...