Word: patients
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...patient answered. He had met the dentist once before, several months before, when the dentist--an oral surgeon, the nurse told him--had extracted two of his wisdom teeth. At that first encounter, the patient had hated the dentist, not with the hatred--that of the weak for the strong...
After a twenty-minute wait, a nurse calls each patient and takes his temperature. Asked about rumors of a 102 degree admission cut-off, one nurse replied, "Well, everyone does get to see the doctor...
...doctor calls for each patient about an hour after he signs in. He asks routine questions about nausea, runny noses, bowel movements. If the answers are convincing, the doctor puts on his relaxed, reassuring, professional manner, and tells each patient to go home, drink about ten glasses of water a day in sips, and take his temperature hourly. "If you're not better in five days," the doctor says, "come back again. Goodbye...
...Adson's way of thinking the question was this: If a gallstone is detected while it is still silent and causing no trouble, should it be removed immediately and prophylactically to protect the patient against possible future illness that might threaten his life? Weighing present risk against future peril, and after examining thousands of recorded cases, Adson rather cautiously concluded that prophylactic surgery is sometimes justified. One case in point: a patient under 65 who has coronary artery disease; the risks become far greater, said Adson, if such a patient has to have emergency gall-bladder surgery later...
...technical questions are of little concern. Blaiberg drives his car, drinks his beer, eats heartily and writes his autobiography. In Paris, Père Boulogne uses his hospital room, after seven months, to celebrate his private Mass and work on his book on St. Thomas Aquinas. DeBakey's patient, William C. Carroll, plays pitch-and-putt golf in Arizona. A Shumway patient, Mrs. Virginia Asche, is at home and doing her own housework three months after the transplant...