Word: patients
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Daily Brief," usually runs between three and six pages of single-spaced type, and covers the key intelligence "get" of the day. At times, it may have included such fascinating data as the results of a urinalysis pinched from a Vienna hospital while a major world leader was a patient, or the latest bedroom exploits of Indonesia's Sukarno or U-2 photographs taken over China...
...hospital administrator rebutted SDS's contention that such a strike would not be detrimental to patient care by claiming that there are no non-essential workers in a hospital "when you come right down to it." "Even the housekeeping staff is essential to prevent the spread of infection, to maintain the antiseptic environment." But SDS's point is that hospitals can find temporary replacements to perform these functions if they are given advance notice of the strike...
...plight of the patient in the 47 states with no legal control is understandably bad, but the resident of well-regulated California or New York is not necessarily safe either. Dr. Howard L. Bodily of the California State Department of Public Health pointed out that there is no federal law to prevent a doctor's signing up with a cut-rate laboratory thousands of miles away from his consulting room and sending his specimens by mail-regardless of the fact that delay may make many of them useless. Some mail-order laboratories have been caught sending out test "results...
...trail of the infectious particles, Surgeon Mark Braimbridge of St. Thomas's Hospital in London had to make a daring innovation and remove pieces of heart muscle from a living patient for the sole purpose of diagnosis. This was ethically permissible, he says, in the hope of finding a better treatment for a lethal disease. The patient was a man of 20 whose heart had been failing for three months. Under study by special microscope techniques at The Kennedy Institute, the muscle specimens were found to contain particles that could not be identified. The one certain thing about them...
There were isolated instances in which doctors had grossly overprescribed heroin-in one case, 1,500 tablets in four days for one patient. Some addicts used aliases to get multiple prescriptions from different doctors. Obviously, most of these extra drugs must have been passed along by the addicts to nonaddicts who wanted to experiment and eventually became hooked themselves. What broke down was not so much the system as the principle of permissiveness itself. The new offbeat generation, helped-so the British say -by an influx of a hundred or more junkies from the U.S. and Canada, exhibited a forbidden...