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Word: patients (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lamphere, 47, of Watertown, N.Y. The sympathetic sergeant called a doctor who saw what looked like clots in the veins on both 'Lamphere's legs, ordered him to Culver Union Hospital. There Lamphere began spitting blood. He was put to bed, acted like a grateful model patient. That was a fortnight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Medical Munchausen | 3/3/1958 | See Source »

...challenged his facts. To one farm-belt editor who accused him of exaggerating his conclusions, Carl Rowan replied: "Sure, the truth hurts, and if I have spiked some tender toes-well, I'm not sorry. I viewed my job much like that of a doctor diagnosing an ailing patient. It would be a silly doctor who spent two hours telling the patient how pretty his teeth are, how strongly his heart beats, how good his reflexes are, only to add a postscript as the patient walks out the door: 'By the way, you may have cancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Rumpus over Rowan | 2/24/1958 | See Source »

Holder tower looms high above the thick mud that clogs the cordovans and white sneakers. "Named in honor of Christopher Holder," the plaque reads, "a member of the Society of Friends in America in the seventeenth century, devout, loyal to duty, patient in suffering." Gargoyles leer down at the spectacle over the cloister arcade and from a phonograph stuck out the second-floor window of four entry the voice of a rock-and-roll singer blares fortissimo...

Author: By John E. Mcnees, | Title: The Quest at Princeton For the Cocktail Soul | 2/21/1958 | See Source »

...warrant such action." In that he was in tune with FRB Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr., who still regards inflation as a major danger. Added Martin: "If I'm right in thinking that this strong, robust economy is suffering from overexertion, nothing can prevent the recovery of the patient-unless you give him a hypodermic that leads him to try to overexert himself again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Optimism v. Facts | 2/17/1958 | See Source »

...working neighbors were free to visit her. Astorria Alessi was led to bed No. 33, where Giuseppina's chart hung. But the woman looked different. Besides, protested Astorria. "my friend came in a pink underskirt." At mention of this garment, one of the volunteers recalled: "The patient who died in bed No. 19 was buried in a pink underskirt." Now at last the volunteers understood why the woman in bed No. 33 had muttered protests when they called her Giuseppina. She was in fact Anna Bianca Battachi: the two women's charts had been switched while the prescriptions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Woman in Bed No. 19 | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

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