Word: patients
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Some 250 hospital presidents and Chiefs-of-staff from medical centers across the country praised Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), the Shriners Burns Institute and Boston Children's Hospital, all Harvard-affiliated, as offering the best patient care within their fields. The poll results were published in this month's Good Housekeeping magazine...
...polled medical experts were asked one question: "Which hospitals-other than your own-do you consider the most outstanding in terms of patient care?" said Maxine Abrams, a freelance writer who helped Good Housekeeping conduct the poll...
...elegance and Renoir's sharp-eyed humanism. The French title of Day for Night, the 1973 valentine to film making in which Truffaut plays a director, is La Nuit Américaine. So it seems sadly fitting that when he died of cancer last week, he was a patient at the American Hospital of Paris...
...here that conventional narrative breaks down, the conventional desire for a grand heroic gesture defeated. The film's ostensible protagonist is shuffled off to a few guilty scenes so that Pran's patient, stubborn will to survive his awful ordeal may be celebrated. Ngor, a Cambodian doctor now living in California, brings both a natural gift and memories of his own torments by the Khmer Rouge to this role...
...develop AIDS. "There is clearly a spectrum of outcomes," says Jerome Groopman of Harvard Medical School. While some individuals will develop the full-blown syndrome, others will simply manifest the flulike symptoms of AIDS-related complex (ARC), a condition marked by swollen glands, weight loss and weakness. While no patient has been known to recover from AIDS, there is new evidence, according to Dr. Jeffrey Laurence of Cornell Medical College, that some ARC patients do get better...