Word: patients
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...battalions will be closed out, 15,000 civilian employees dropped, 16 depots, arsenals or other service facilities shut down. Among the casualties: Murphy Army Hospital in Waltham, Mass., which the Army has been trying to close (against congressional pressure) for eight years because it has five staffers for every patient, compared to the accepted...
...permitted limit), to 70, 80, 84. Back in the diner, cups and saucers crashed from cupboards, and in the compartments, people locked arms to keep from smashing against the walls. Women fainted in the aisles. A doctor was knocked unconscious by a tumbling suitcase as he treated his sixth patient...
...pilgrims who visit Lourdes each year, some 30,000 are stretcher cases avowedly hoping for cures. Most of these are examined before entering the water by a Bureau of Scientific Studies, which checks the medical history of the case and transmits a dossier to the Medical Bureau. If a patient later declares himself helped or cured, he is immediately examined by a doctor in attendance, who reports in turn to the bureau. This body of doctors (all Roman Catholic) meets almost every day at the height of the season, automatically rejects mental and nervous ailments and all cases of paralysis...
These are kept under medical supervision for a year, then examined again. If favorable, the report then goes to an International Commission-40 prominent Roman Catholic physicians-which meets once a year in Paris. If the International Commission approves, a final report is sent to the bishop of the patient's diocese (in de Borse's case, the Archbishop of Westminster), who in turn sets up a canonical committee to decide whether the cure is to be regarded as miraculous...
Oddly enough, Dr. Melrose found that the patient's ulcer had little to do with his addiction. Main reason: he enjoyed the distention of his stomach by gas (carbon dioxide generated by the action of digestive hydrochloric acid on the bicarbonate) and the resultant belching...