Word: patients
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Transsexuals have so far been a badly neglected group of patients, "stepchildren of medicine," suffering intensely under their undeserved misfortune. Until psychiatry finds a cure for them, surgery is their only life-saving hope, just as it is for the patient with lung cancer...
...fast knockout. As Dr. Wehrle puts it, "There is a fixed and mystical belief that if one antibiotic is good, two must be better, and three even more efficacious." Not so, the Wehrle team found. In a twelve-month study at Los Angeles County General Hospital, every meningitis patient got intravenous ampicillin, a fast-acting form of penicillin, while alternate patients received, in addition, chloramphenicol and streptomycin. There were five deaths among 129 patients on ampicillin alone, but 13 among the 111 who got all three drugs. Using an antibiotic combination is evidently detrimental, perhaps because it interferes with...
...patient who needs a prolonged transfusion or intravenous feeding of any kind normally has no difficulty in getting it. His doctor slips a needle into the vein and threads a thin polyethylene tube (catheter) through the needle into the bloodstream. The needle is then removed, the catheter taped down so that it will not pull out, and the flow of fluid continued as long as required. Occasionally, however, this procedure can have tragic complications...
STUDENT: If a patient is unhappy...
Many doctors - surgeons especially - operate on the principle of charging the patient according to his ability to pay. Ophthalmic Surgeon Alston Callahan of Birmingham operates on his own version of the principle. A well-heeled patient gets no bill. Instead, he is asked for a donation to the center in which he has been treated...