Word: patients
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Absolutes. Despite his extraordinary scientific prestige, Rabi always shunned public attention. At Columbia, he was regarded as a witty, patient teacher deeply concerned with humanizing the austere and arcane formulas of science. Fittingly, his last class as one of Columbia's few University Professors, who have the freedom to teach whatever they wish, was on "The Philosophical and Social Implications of 20th Century Physics." His students, drawn from many disciplines, listened intently. "Science, unlike theology," Rabi argued, "questions its own bases all along. It is a developing thing and, of itself, is revolutionary. And, as such, it particularly fits...
Nurses & Maids. Hardest hit of all are hospitals, who now need three employees per patient per day compared to 1.5 in 1946. About 62,000 more registered nurses are wanted; so are 3,000 janitors and maids, whom hospitals find hard to hire because of relatively low wages. Skilled engineers and technicians have long been in short supply, but so now are such blue-collar workers as tool-and diemakers, painters and auto mechanics, who can make up to $18,000 a year. Around-the-clock businesses like hotels are finding it difficult to compete for cashiers and telephone operators...
...first devices -cystoscopes- for enabling the diagnosing physician to look directly into the bladder were made as long ago as 1877. Despite technical improvements, they still have some shortcomings. Only one doctor at a time can look inside the patient; when the next doctor, or a medical student, looks in, the view may well have changed. There is no pictorial record of what is seen, and the doctor has to write a description in such vague terms as "patchy hemorrhaging...
With one or more television screens, each showing a small bladder area enlarged to a 7-in. diameter, any number of doctors or students can look inside the patient's bladder simultaneously. There is far less chance of a diagnostic oversight when the physician can re-ex amine his findings on tape, and his observations are instantly checked by colleagues. At later stages of treatment, or if the patient moves away and is treated by another doctor, the color videotape record will recall accurately and precisely what the original condition...
Most people see the Church as the last bastion of tradition and of the good old values, Stendahl said. "Patience is supposed to be the supreme virtue of Christianity." But Jesus, he said, was not a patient man. He was a "pushy...