Word: patients
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...Security, Medicare, federal pensions and farm benefits. The economists suggest, for example, that the initial level of Social Security benefits that people receive when they retire could be reduced by 5%. In addition, the book asserts that the rate of growth in payments that hospitals receive for each Medicare patient should be slashed by more than two-thirds, after adjustment for inflation. For all domestic programs, the target would be savings of $46 billion...
...creation of Priscilla Blum, 59, a freelance writer and pilot who had a mastectomy in 1969. She knew that cancer patients have to spend heavily on commercial flights to get the best treatment possible and that those expenses are rarely covered by medical insurance. Blum, who keeps a single-engine Comanche at the Westchester airport, also knew that many corporate jets have empty seats when they take off. Her idea was simply to put patients on the planes. To help make her plan work, Blum enlisted the aid of her friend Jay Weinberg, 66, a former cancer patient and owner...
...know if one patient in 10,000 will benefit," says Pharmacologist William Beaver, of Georgetown University, "but we ought to find...
...Clinical Pain Service, in Seattle, which has be come a model for similar clinics across the country. Here, sufferers from chronic pain can be examined by medical specialists in a variety of fields, from orthopedics to psychiatry, in an attempt to isolate the often mysterious causes of a patient's constant agony...
...spoke of reading her hospital chart and realizing that she had been enduring needless suffering because her doctors had given her inadequate doses of pain-killing drugs. "I've seen patients and I've cried," he admits. "It stresses me emotionally to see a patient in severe pain who could be relieved and is not." And yet, according to his asso ciates, Bonica never discusses his own pain. Says Bill Fordyce, a psychologist at the Seattle clinic: "He's a tough...