Word: patients
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bedside nurses become familiar faces to a patient recovering from surgery. But the operating-room nurses on whom his life once depended are at most only masked, nameless figures, seen dimly, if at all, through an anesthetic haze. Last week, at the usually unremarkable annual meeting of the Association of Operating Room Nurses, five of them were in attendance, unmasked and uncapped-and they were hailed as celebrities. They were the head nurses who had played key roles in the world's first five transplants of human hearts...
...variety of jobs opening up is as bewildering as the swirl of hospital personnel around the patient. The universities with functioning programs offer courses in everything from medical technology to administration, dental hygiene, medical illustration, cell identification and therapeutic recreation. At higher-degree levels, there are courses in rehabilitation counseling and clinical psychology; some schools offer diplomas in such esoteric fields as inhalation therapy and histologic technology (study of tissues to detect disease...
...hospital that we visited had first been built by the French, and it was a small hospital. During the last four years it has been enlarged to a hospital of some four hundred beds. In the week just prior to our visit the daily patient population of the hospital was over 750, meaning that there were two patients to many beds. The hospital itself, judged to be one of the best of the province hospitals in South Vietnam, had very little in the way of sanitary facilities. Walking through it, one had to take care to avoid stepping in human...
While South African Surgeon Christiaan Barnard, 44, pushed up his publicity chart in South America, some symptoms appeared back home-though not in the transplanted heart of recuperating Patient Philip Blaiberg (see MEDICINE). Barnard's wife Louwtjie, 39, in an interview with London's Sunday Express, had some heartfelt words about "this whole business of fame." Said Louwtjie: "The whole world is showering rose petals on Chris. He's getting fabulous offers, and women from all over the world write love letters to him. Suddenly he can do no wrong...
Only Ernie Hardy, playing his second game of the season after eligibility woes, turned in a competent performance. The 6-3 Ohioan hit seven of eleven shots, grabbed a team high (with Bob Kanuth) seven rebounds and tried vainly to stop Columbia's patient, devastating attack...