Word: patients
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hospital spokesmen this week said they were uncertain how the increase will affect patient costs, adding that they want to see what transpires at the CRICO meeting...
...biggest loss so far was a case decided last fall, where the judge awarded a patient $1,250,000 for damages suffered when Beth Israel doctors accidentally cut her renal cave artery while cleaning out her spinal column, Creasey said. But he stressed the difficulty of distinguishing between the high risks of some procedures and actual malpractice...
...time is right in Switzerland for a woman to join the Federal Council, but not Uchtenhagen. She was the victim not of male resistance but of her party's politics and her chilly personality. The silent majority of Swiss women and men are patient and will wait for another woman...
...need to keep replaying our own life stories, no matter how hopeless the tales. In Ohio Impromptu (one of the plays at the Clurman), two gray-haired, black-robed figures sit at a table. They are called Reader and Listener, but they could be priest and communicant, doctor and patient, actor and audience. The Reader intones a mysterious narrative that is in fact the history of their relationship. When the text ends, the Listener will be left alone forever. And so, like a child before bedtime, he begs the Reader never to stop. But the story must end; the power...
David's doctor, Immunologist William Shearer, is hopeful that his famous patient is not suffering a graft-vs.-host reaction. Instead, he suspects that the symptoms are the positive signs of "an incipient immune system beginning to develop in a child who had none." Blood tests already suggest that his sister's cells are taking hold. Says Shearer: "We expect to know in a month." Now that he has been exposed to the outside world, David will never return to the bubble. For the present, he remains quarantined, but his family may visit his room wearing surgical garb...