Word: patients
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...patient had been nauseated and suffering from diarrhea. At the clinic in Pasadena, Calif. Dr. Norman L. McBride took a blood sample, and analysis showed an abnormally high count of white cells. Dr. McBride suspected an infection of the patient's womb, put her under anesthesia and opened her abdomen. Her womb was normal, but he detected bile stains and inflammation around her gall bladder. He opened the bladder, took out a gallstone, closed the bladder, flushed it with an antibiotic solution. The patient made a good recovery and went home within a week...
...involved in 25 incidents (in all) of unprofessional practice, in six of which the patient died. And in several (including appendectomies) there was no evidence that surgery was necessary...
...Operated on a man of 59 for cancer, but detected none. Seeing a severely diseased kidney, he removed this "in an unusual way." Gangrene set in, "the probable result of plaintiff's improper surgical procedure," and the patient died...
...Paid no attention to an assistant's warning that a sponge seemed to be missing while he was removing a tumor from a 40-year-old woman. The patient was readmitted with an internal abscess, and died; autopsy indicated that death was caused by the sponge...
...When the patient is unconscious or anesthetized and a doctor wants to give a quick-acting injection in a hurry, he often has trouble (especially in the very young and very fat) in finding a vein. The answer, said British Anesthetist John Bullough in last week's Lancet, is to make the injection into the tongue. A few drugs cannot be administered in this way because they cause irritation, but most give no trouble and are absorbed in about a minute...