Word: patients
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most of them will give the name of a private doctor for a girl to contact on her own. UHS doctors do not give guarantees about these references: "The private doctors may prescribe pills or they may not," Dr. Dana L. Farnsworth, director of the UHS said. Referring a patient to a private doctor who will make his own decision is "completely legal," he noted-and, by then, the question is out of Harvard's hands...
Commenting on general UHS policy, Farnsworth has said, "Often the doctor is in an impossible situation. His first duty is to his patient, but he must also keep his own conscience clear." Maintaining a professional conscience is not an easy assignment in 1967, especially when cash can so easily compensate for conscience in the world beyond Holyoke Center...
...With the patient's circulatory system connected to a pump-oxygenator, the surgeon opened the heart and found that the septum (wall) between the main pumping chambers, the ventricles, was torn and consisted partly of dead tissue. A substantial part of each ventricle, to which the blood supply had been cut off by the shutdown of a coronary artery, was also dead or dying. Dr. Heimbecker repaired the septum with a Teflon patch. Then, as the dying muscle in the ventricle walls was interfering with the working of healthy muscle, he boldly decided to cut it out. He removed...
...patient's heart performed fairly well, Medical World News reports; its bouts of irregular activity were checked by drugs and electrical stimulation. But the patient's lung damage had necessitated cutting a breathing tube into his windpipe, and after a month he died from an unforeseeable rupture where this tube had been placed...
Life's Circularity. It requires a patient reader to keep from feeling that he has been marching through Borges in circles. But, like all compelling writers, Borges makes the march profoundly worthwhile; the traveler may find himself unconsciously adapting to the author's concentric step...